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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

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Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

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In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

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All art is exploitation.

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The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

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My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

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My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1966

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