We are parts of the earth that walk around and have individual consciousness for awhile and then go back. - Wendy Rose

if Indians are left out of every other class on the university campus, even where they are pertinent-for example, leaving Scott Momaday out of a class on twentieth-century American literature, something like that somewhere else there has to be a balance. There has to be someone somewhere else who is going to emphasize Scott Momaday to the exclusion of the ones who are emphasized in the other class. I hope that at some point that will become balanced. I hope that pretty soon an American literature class will just automatically include someone like Scott Momaday-and some of the other people: Charles Eastman, you know, the other writers in our history.

This is a plural society and all of us have to work at it a little bit to get the full flavor of the society.

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