The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.