A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.