I think it's impossible to be governed with any sense of integrity when you don't recognize each other and have no obligation to each other. - Wendy Rose

the way I think of it-now I don't really know where the poems or where the art comes from, I don't know where the images come from-but however they come or wherever they come from is like communicating with a person. It's a whole person. That person shows you things and has a certain appearance but also tells you things. So as you receive images, they are either received through the ear or through the eye or through the tongue and that's just the way it feels.

I would much rather be respected by the Indian community through my writing than to have my books reviewed in the New York Times.

One way that they [Kachinas] can be thought of is if you think of the entire earth as being one being and we as small beings living on that large being like fleas on a cat.