103 quotes
Nature is the most profound multimedia event that you will ever experience. Why not turn off your television and go witness the greatest show on Earth. (p 152)
Walk Gently Upon the Earth (2010)
By incorporating history, by remembering, Indian women continue to define themselves. It is through this remembering that we survive. It is through this speaking out that our history is preserved more whole and intact than it was in the past.
Love, Lettie thought, it hurts and gladdens us no matter what a woman's age. (p177)
Mean Spirit (1990)
I feel the air as if I could move through it with my ancestors' wings. (p 202)
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (2001)
We can’t control the earth’s response to our actions, only our own behaviors.
Superstition Review (2013)
It’s a good feeling to be empty-handed, to feel naked as if a whole life was blown off my back by a storm. (Chapter 5, p105)
Power (1999)
My characters actually create me instead of the other way around.
with Terrain.org (1999)
I think of that word, power, and what it means.
It means you feed your people, you help the world.
I never understood what else there was to it
But I watched its struggles daily, its games
fragment from Indios (2012)
Take my hand.
This river beside us is singing.
It is saying Yes
to our touching of hands,
this uprising of arms,
around one another,
the hearts beating on this hemisphere
and that.
Seeing through the Sun (1985)
The place itself seems alive. Here, the land itself seems to have a sound, the soft brush of a breeze. (Chapter 6, p159)
Power (1999)
the red father of war
who signs his name
in the blood of other men
Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)
these words,
these words are proof
there is healing
The Book of Medicines (1993)
From the hills, the doings of town seemed distant and hazy to Belle. She fell into a new rhythm, more like the rhythm of earth, the cycles of night and day. (p 322)
Mean Spirit (1990)
If,
when you are there, you see women
wading on the water
and clouds in the valley,
the smell of rain,
or a lotus blossom rises out of round green leaves,
remember there is always something
besides our own misery.
Rounding the Human Corners (2008)
It’s as if everything breathes, hard and desperate, the land, the house, the water.
The wind is a living force. We Taiga call the wind Oni. It enters us all at birth and stays with us all through life. It connects us to every other creature.
Power (1999)
Throw open the windows,
it's spring! All I held in
my winter breast turns back
into the world, an inverse body,
the universe turned inside out
singing and breaking through
the four red chambers of earth's heart.
Everything is alive.
Seeing through the Sun (1985)
I puzzle over humans. They can talk, but they can lie. They do not always know their own motivations.
with ‘’Fiction Advocate (2023)
It was a beautiful night, and she thought how wonderful it was to look out without fear (p373)
Mean Spirit (1990)
Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places. (p53)
People of the Whale (2008)
Uncle Sam was a cold uncle with a mean soul and a cruel spirit. (p219)
Mean Spirit (1990)