It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.