I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children. - Diane Abbott Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. - Debbie Allen It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago. - Richard M Daley Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music. - Georgie Fame While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. - Roland Gift

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. - Helge Ingstad How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken? - Malcolm Lowry I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. - Wilson Rawls Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. - Andy Rooney

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. - Martin Van Buren Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government. - Jim Costa Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. - Jared Diamond The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and eyes. With regard to the Native Americans she has Alzheimer's or mad cow disease and can't remember her past, and her blind eyes can't see the terrifying plight of most of the Indian tribes. Meanwhile she blows China and stomps Cuba to death, choosing to forget the Native cultures she has already destroy...

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. - Anish Kapoor She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world. - Sharon Maas

It was lunchtime and I was standing outside by the weird sculpture that was supposed to be an Indian. I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. - Sherman Alexie I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians. - James Welch

Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine. - Elizabeth Gilbert The Bhagavad Gitathat ancient Indian Yogic textsays that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. - Elizabeth Gilbert The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. - Elizabeth Gilbert As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience...

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since. - Edward Abbey Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience. - Edward Abbey In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. - H Rap Brown We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the A...