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

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" I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I look more Indian when I'm serious. "

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

" 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. "

" My father is an amazing man. "

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

" I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Spiritual matters should be private. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" All I owe the world is my art. "

" You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. "

" 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. "

" We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. "

" 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 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. "

" 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.' "