I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
Don't live up to your stereotypes.
The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
All I owe the world is my art.
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
White Americans have a short memory.
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
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.
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
Writing is a lonely business.
