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

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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 there. "

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" White Americans have a short memory. "

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

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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 crossing borders. "

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" 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 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.' "

" I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My father is an amazing man. "