Taboo Quotes

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

God made me an Indian.

My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

Why should he not justly know his race’s own heroes rather than through false teaching think them wrong? Have they not as much claim to valor as Hercules or Achilles? Now I do not say here that everything he has natively is right or better than the Caucasian’s. Not at all, but I do say that there are noble qualities and traits and a set of literary traditions he had which are just as fine and finer, and when he has these, or the sake of keeping a fine spirit of self-respect and pride in himself, let us preserve them.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

We're a proud people. We don't want to be assimilated.

Having uncritically accepted [Western] culture in everything, we now find we have lost our hold on the autonomous ideals of the Japanese race.

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

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.