Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.