You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

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.

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

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

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.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

I love to scare the already terrified assholes.