The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

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

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.

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

People who fall in love can fall out of it.

A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing

Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

I want people that made a fortune.

It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.