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

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.