You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

My father is an amazing man.

At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.