You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .