Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.