I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

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.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

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

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.

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.