"He was bemused and slightly embarrassed owner of a twenty-first century American mind." (49)

"Who cares about uranium mines and nuclear-waste-dump sites on sacred land?"(49) "A triathlon was a religious quest." (49 "master practitioner of white middle- chiropractic voodoo" (50)

"I dont want long hair, I dont want short hair, I dont want hair at all, and I dont want to be a girl or a boy, i want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook." (51)

"William himself was a little brown guy, so the other travelers were always sniffing around him, but he smelled only of Dove soap, Mennen deodorant, and sarcasm." (52)

"If norwegian terrorists had exploded the World Trade Center, then blue-eyed blondes would be viewed with more suspicion. Or so he hoped." (52)

"he dreamed of mutilating the rapists, and eating them alive while his wife and daughter cheered for him." (54)

"I am a Native American and therefore have ten thousand more reasons to terrorize the U.S. than any of those Taliban jerk-offs, but I have chosen instead to become a civic American Citizen, so all of you white folks should be celebrating my kindness and moral decency and awesome ability to forgive!" (54)

"I start thinking I'm going to disappear, you know, just vanish, if I'm not home. Sometimes I worry their love is the only thing that makes me human, you know? I think if they stopped loving me, I might burn up, spontaneously combust, and turn into little pieces of oxygen, and hydrogen and carbon. ...I understand love can be so large." (55)

"two dark men laughing at dark jokes" (57)

"tribe" "brotherhood"