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"i guess it is an Indian thing in the sense that I'm an Indian doing this thing."

"the thing about *they* is resisting the fallacy of knowledge, the kernel, a mooring of fact that people need in order to know you, bouncing off body into spritely idea...discomfort, instability of terminology, curiosity, respect, faith, new kinds of sense, a shape forms around wisps in the darkness, attracting stars, sits next to you."

"the stars are anxious. what version of yourself do you see when you close your eyes?"

"I cry
for a straight week. The seam
of my skin bursts open
routinely. It’s a condition. In
the valley I lived in for
thousands of years, in traditional times,
I’m sure I would
have been a mourner, called
on to cry bc I do it all the time."

"people survive all the time through true horrors, holocaust, middle passage, 1492, like how?? I'm one of the weak ones. I cry at Beyoncé songs."

"good/bad right/wrong binary is another weapon of the oppressor, justifies conquest, and is a method to ensure survivors, if there are any, will always question their worth to literally just live."

“Books are fallible towers of letters with the power you give them. It’s heartbreaking to watch your pillars fall.”

“There is a kind of power in being reviled for just being, in that sense that my scooped shoulders, the snake of my neck, my bare leg strikes frenzy. *I* scare *them.*”

“How much Indian carries with you if you leave?”

“Blood quantum is an American invention whereby the ‘Indian problem’ solves itself through assimilation.”