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We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours.
For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
Say it with pride we are Hindus
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating
My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.
This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Indians, man, they were so tough they useta eat steak with a spoon." "I hate steak," said Tyrone.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
Indians love to travel with their families, and they bring along everything including the kitchen and cooking utensils. Third-class coaches are always filled to capacity with people literally hanging out of the windows.
The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
I was a journalist when I made 'I'm British But ... ' I'd seen how important the media was in terms of defining Indians - after the riots in the '80s, I was like, 'Oh my God!'
Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.
As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.
The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
Indian believes they ain't but two sins ... bein a coward ... and turnin agin yer own kind.
The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery. Maybe an Indian mind can digest these contradictions, but mine can't.
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.
It's all tribal.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.
They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart.
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.
I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing
The true India resides in its villages
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.
It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here.
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.
First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.
British. My mother
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
After riding like a moron all over the place, observe the face of an Indian when he crashes. He is stunned.
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.
India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
We're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings.
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen
he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.
My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.
I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.
Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar,
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
White people have all the watches, but Indians have all the time." But for most of us,
The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.
The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
Third-generation Indians love maintaining their cultural traditions, but they can also go down the pub, shop till they drop, do whatever anyone else does.
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.
Men in India hold hands walking down the street," Ben said, his voice right up against my ear.
"Really?"
"Yeah. It's just part of their culture. They don't, you know, do things sexually. They just hold hands. Here, that would be, like, weird."
"Yeah. We Americans are so uptight," I said.
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.
No telling what those men wanted ... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian ...
I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.