In America, law substitutes for custom.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.