Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

My father is an amazing man.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.