If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

What you hope for, you also fear.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.