I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

White Americans have a short memory.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter