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

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

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.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

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