Sherman Alexie Quotes
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
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My father is an amazing man.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.
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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.
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Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
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The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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We only know how to lose and be lost.