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 isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
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.
White Americans have a short memory.
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.