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• I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me…
• Don't live up to your stereotypes.
• When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
• I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more…
• I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has…
• If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
• My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
• The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
• We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to…
• In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter…
• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic…
• I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their…

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