We only know how to lose and be lost.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

...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

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.