To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

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

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.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

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