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Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I would not score very highly on religious value.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.