Best Native Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.”

“I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.”

“America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.”

“A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.”

“Native American people have been all over the world. One example I use is that I met a Blackfeet man in Vienna. He was Viennese-born.”

“The name of Peru was not known to the natives.”

“I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.”

“Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for equality - in a nation whose greatest vice is the perennial failure to practice the virtue it preaches.”

“A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.”

“When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.”

“I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.”

“Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.”

“Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.”

“I'm a Native American actress.”

“The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.”

“The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.”

“I want to do something like 'Stranger than Fiction,' like a Native version of 'Stranger than Fiction.' That's one that comes to mind.”

“When I was young, kids who were more Native American than me would call me 'white boy.' To my white friends, I was 'that Indian kid.'”

“Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.”

“I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.”

“I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.”