Funny How A Little Politeness

There Have Been Players With Indian Heritage, But There Hasn't Been A Native-american Professional Basketball Player Who Became A Regular For All Sorts Of Social And Political Reasons.

I Felt So Conflicted About Having Fled The Rez As A Kid That I Created A Whole Literary Career That Left Me There.

They've Been Screaming About The Death Of Literacy For Years, But I Think Tv Is The Gutenberg [printing] Press. I Think Tv Is The Only Thing That Keeps Us Vaguely In Democracy Even If It's In The Hands Of The Corporate Culture. If You're An Artist You Write In Your Time. Moaning About The Fact That Maybe People Read More Books A Hundred Years Ago - That's Not True. I Think The Same Percentage Has Always Read.

I End Up Feeling Like A Spy In The House Of Ethnicity, You Know? Because People Will Talk Around Me As They Would Talk Around The People In Their Cultural Group. So I Get To Hear All The Secrets And Jokes And You Know, I'm A Part Of Every Community Because Of The Way I Look.

She Braided My Sister's Hair With Hands That Smelled Deep Roots Buried In The Earth She Told Me The Old Stories How Time Never Mattered When She Died They Gave Me Her Clock