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I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. Lucian Freud

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor. Frantz Fanon

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. Sri Aurobindo

The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking. Marcus Samuelsson

Strength, power, and majesty, belong to man; They make the glory native to his life; But sweetness is a woman's attribute - By that she has reigned, and by that will reign. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia. Justine Larbalestier

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