Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

The shadows cannot speak.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Sin is the assassin of the soul.

I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.

Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.