Native American Funny Quotes & Sayings

Maybe people could fall in love without an identity crisis. — Leah Raeder

I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though. — Jon Favreau

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE — Jules Verne

These same ABCs couldn't speak Chinese and didn't care---but you don't have shit without your native tongue. African slaves were forced by threat of physical punishment to abandon their native languages, but a lot of us just gave ours up with a shrug---these Uncle Chans convinced us to assimilate, shut the fuck up, and play the part. What they didn't understand is that after your have the money and degrees, you can't buy your identity back. I wasn't worried about degrees, but I cared about my roots. Even if I hated what it meant to be an Asian in t he American wilderness, i respected the Chinese home I was raised in. Usually I wasn't so vocal about Asian identity, but without my parents around, I felt a sudden duty to say something myself. It's funny how annoying I thought my mom was, but as soon as she wasn't around, i carried the torch for her. — Eddie Huang

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose. — Eddie Izzard

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. — James Allen

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one. — Ace Antonio Hall

Grief dares us to love once more. — Terry Tempest Williams

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling. — Simon Callow

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! — Charles Dickens

I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it? — Hari Kondabolu