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- 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…
- We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
- At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural…
- You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
- That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
- It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to…
- 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…
- There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a…
- When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye…
- The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
- We only know how to lose and be lost.
- I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every…
- Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.
- Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody?…
- Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family…
- Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe…
- I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more…
- When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old,…
- These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in…
- I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this…
- When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
- Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
- ...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what…
- That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.
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