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.

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.

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.

The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.