They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

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.

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 . . .

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.