And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

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

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

One play can change your momentum forever.

That's right, I am a book kisser.