But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.