In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.