Indian Quotes

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

I think the environment has become more competitive. That has made Indian industry more concerned with a) its customers, b) the quality of its products, and c) its brand image in the marketplace.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.

I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!