When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.