I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief. . . No one voice speaks for all voices.
The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
I think gay people deserve all the same rights as everybody else, it's just that marriage is specifically for a man and a woman.