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

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

" 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. "

" Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. "

" 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. "

" My father is an amazing man. "

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

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. "

" 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. "

" White Americans have a short memory. "

" My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. "

" Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. "

" 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. "

" All art is exploitation. "

" Spiritual matters should be private. "

" 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. "

" There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. "

" 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. "

" 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 had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. "

" In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. "

" Don't live up to your stereotypes. "

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

" A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. "

" All I owe the world is my art. "

" 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. "

" Writing is a lonely business. "

" When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. "

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