Un American Quotes
Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.
We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.
The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward—toward my people—instead of backward, away from them.
The most beautiful thing in the world is a heart that is changing.
Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.
Would it surprise you to hear that man's unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?
At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.
There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.
Darkness within clouds the world without.
It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.
I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.
As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within.
Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
Light chases away darkness.
You carry the weight of the preternatural world on those big shoulders of yours. But your heart is even bigger, and the burden you harbor there heavier.
It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.
...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.
Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.
Hiking is like life...You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.And then you miss all this.
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs
To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.
Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.
I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.