There are a lot of stories like that, about how words have power that can create and heal. Also destroy. After something is said, the people who hear… - Luci Tapahonso

I try to accept as many invitations as I can with the idea that probably people have not met another Navajo before. They don’t really have any idea except maybe the stereotypical kinds of ideas of American Indians. For whoever comes behind me in the next two years, I want to establish what the position entails, and that is a challenge.

Poetry is an overlooked and underrated kind of art.

In Navajo, the idea of words or language is really our origin. We were created by words, and we survived by words. Everything that comprises a Navajo person is based on words — your clan, where you come from, how the world was created.