I Think A Lot Of Us Are

Every Morning When I Awake I Ask Myself Whether I Should Write Or Blow Up A Dam. I Tell Myself I Should Keep Writing, Though I'm Not Sure That's Right

Like The Layers Of An Onion, Under The First Lie Is Another, And Under That Another, And They All Make You Cry.

As Is True For Most People I Know, I've Always Loved Learning. As Is Also True For Most People I Know, I Always Hated School. Why Is That?

I Am Only So Beautiful As The Character Of My Relationships, Only So Rich As I Enrich Those Around Me, Only So Alive As I Enliven Those I Greet.

Many Indians Have Told Me That The Most Basic Difference Between Western And Indigenous Ways Of Being Is That Westerners View The World As Dead, And Not As Filled With Speaking, Thinking, Feeling Subjects As Worthy And Valuable As Themselves.