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What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

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There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

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I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

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The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

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Spiritual matters should be private.

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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

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You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1966

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