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What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

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

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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.

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 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 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...

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'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.

Spiritual matters should be private.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

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

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.

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...

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