Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

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

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

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

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.

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