Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

I'm a Native American actress.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

You are the single most amazing person, faery, woman in this world or the other. Because of you, I am a part of this strange new world, have a second mother, and . . . eternity. I have almost everything I could want.

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

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.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in!

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.