I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Mae West had it right—try anything once, do it again if you like it.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

I don't know what's tighter, our jeans or our friendship.