My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.