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Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
Stafford Cripps

Government, Confusion, Means

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe

Mind, Culture, Ability

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
Sherman Alexie

Successful, Feeling, Another

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
Sherman Alexie

Writing, Career, Means

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
Sherman Alexie

Political, Basketball, Social

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
Sherman Alexie

Reaction, Indians, Europeans

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie

Rather, Artists, Cultural

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
Sherman Alexie

Women, Power, Strong

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
Sherman Alexie

Nothing, Writing, Thought

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 Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.
Katherine Dunham

Time, Same, Another

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
M. F. Husain

Work, Today, Trying

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.
Conrad Black

Almost, Seriously, Africa

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
Willie Stargell

Early, Outcast, Bred

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Charles Eastman

Religion, Him, Understand

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
Wilma Mankiller

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
Evo Morales

Here, Hair, Once

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
ASAP Rocky

Black, Friends, White

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
Carlos Fuentes

History, Black, Write

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
Carlos Fuentes

Live, Sometimes, Continue

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
Carlos Fuentes

Black, America, After

I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
Sebastian Vettel

Lost, Two, Thoughts

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
Michelle Bachelet

Work, Women, Economic

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
Mira Nair

Small, Town, Standards

There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.
Mira Nair

Family, Important, Nothing

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
Jim Costa

Government, Political, Often

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Jared Diamond

Few, Defeat, Military

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

Another, Far, Themselves

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
Anish Kapoor

Truth, Food, Reality

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
Anish Kapoor

Felt, Maybe, Level

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
Roland Joffe

Family, Down, Different

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