The shadows cannot speak.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

There was nothing special with the way he looked at her but her heart raced even with a glance.

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

I'm a takeout kind of girl. Whole Foods prepares most of my meals.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.