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

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

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

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.