I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.