The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

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.

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.

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

The shadows cannot speak.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Everything on Twitter is true.

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart

I would hate to be on a plane every day.