“The entire history of the Indian is genocide. It’s alien terminology, and it messes with our identity. We are older than America. We’ve been part of the land. We are ancestral.”
“When the fire happened, it absolutely changed reality; it altered reality for me forever, and beyond forever.”
“I don’t belong in this world any more. It’s not changed for them, but it was altered for me forever.”
“Hoping and wishing are heroin for the thought process; we need more time thinking and doing.”
“I wore politics as an identity, but I came to understand it as a limited identity…This is all about my perceptions. I’m headed in a direction, and I will continue to see where it takes me.”
“I write lines. I don’t write poetry. I don’t write lyrics. Some of the lines become poetry, and some of the lines become lyrics, but I always write what I have to say. If I sat down to write a song, I would have to pay attention to the math of music.” ~