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

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.

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.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

It’s like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.

Your believability influences your accessibility to possibilty.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.