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

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

'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

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Discover. Read. Learn.

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.