Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

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.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.