relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.