I'm a poet who can whine in meter

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.

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

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white world. I mean, Native American tribalism sovereignty, even the political fight for sovereignty and cultural sovereignty is a very us versus them. And I think a lot of people in this country, especially European Americans and those descended from Europeans don't see themselves as tribal.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.