Funny How A Little Politeness Can Change

When You Resort To Violence To Prove A Point, You’ve Just Experienced A Profound Failure Of Imagination.

In A Sense, You're Always Mythologizing Your Life; It's Always An Effort To Make Yourself Epic. At Least In Fiction You Can Lie And Sort Of Justify Your Delusion About Your "epicness." But When You're Writing A Memoir, You're Trying To Make Your Life Epic And It's Not - Nobody's Life Is.

And I Couldn't Make Fun Of Her For That Dream. It Was My Dream, Too. And Indian Boys Weren't Supposed To Dream Like That. And White Girls From Small Towns Weren't Supposed To Dream Big, Either. We Were Supposed To Be Happy With Our Limitations. But There Was No Way Penelope And I Were Going To Sit Still. Nope, We Both Wanted To Fly.

I Recognize Now That The Conditions That Indians Are Living In Are The Conditions That Poor People Everywhere Are Living In.

Non-indian Writers Usually Say "great Spirit," "mother Earth," "two-legged, Four-legged, And Winged." Mixed-blood Writers Usually Say "creator, "mother Earth," "two-legged, Four- Legged, And Winged." Indian Writers Usually Say "god," "mother Earth," "human Being, Dog, And Bird."