Michael Horse Quotes

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

It may not be art, but it is history.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change. So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

The Sami, as an indigenous people, as well as the Roma and other groups, have the right to maintain and develop their own language and culture.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.

People looked up to us for our values and leadership. But today, they laugh as we are busy debating whether one of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal, was actually built by Indians.

Loving the country, wanting to preserve the culture and identity - protecting the interests of the Americans in America, of the French in France, of the Israelis in Israel - seems to me perfectly legitimate.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.