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.

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

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

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.