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" But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. "

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" All I owe the world is my art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. "

" I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. "

" 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. "

" In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.' "

" Don't live up to your stereotypes. "

" My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. "

" I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. "

" 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. "

" The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. "

" The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books. "

" If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. "

" 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 gap. "

" What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. "

" I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. "

" Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. "

" Writing is a lonely business. "

" My father is an amazing man. "

" 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. "

" In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. "

" 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. "

" My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. "

" Spiritual matters should be private. "

" I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. "

" I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. "

" My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. "

" When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. "