"As a child at a mission boarding school in the 1960s, I was forced to learn English. Nowhere in our lessons was there…"

"In Navajo, they say the sacred begins at the tip of my tongue. So there’s very much sacredness or a holiness that’s a…"

"In Navajo, the idea of words or language is really our origin. We were created by words, and we survived by words. Ev…"

"There are a lot of stories like that, about how words have power that can create and heal. Also destroy. After someth…"

"It’s important to do as much as I can to publicize the ideas of language, the importance of family, the importance of…"

"The idea of poetry in our Navajo world, speaking — Ya’ jił’tí’i’gí’ — Diníbizaad — is related to the whole — one’s wh…"

"I try to accept as many invitations as I can with the idea that probably people have not met another Navajo before. T…"

"Poetry is an overlooked and underrated kind of art."

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"