The ordinary can be like medicine.

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.