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

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.

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.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures.

Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.