The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.James Baldwin
“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves.”
Kiowa novelist and poet · 1934 – 2024
Kiowa novelist, poet and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn in 1969, a landmark that launched the Native American Renaissance. His essays in The Man Made of Words explore language, story and identity.
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