God made me an Indian.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

It does not take many words to tell the truth

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.

Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.

Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

What regresses, never progresses.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.