It was just enough to sit there without words.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.