Racism breeds racism in reverse.

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

Friendship needs no words.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.