Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.