Sherman Alexie Quotes

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  "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

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  Black And White, Thinking, Two

  "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007.

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  Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

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  Struggle, Community, Life Is

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.127, Random House

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• I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

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  Teenager, Book, Writing

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  When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

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  Profound, Imagination, Violence

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Aug 06, 2015

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  If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

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  Inspiring, People, Littles

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Sep 01, 2015

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• These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

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  Dream, Memories, Past

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 18, 2017

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• Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

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  Country, Xenophobia, Hate

  "Sherman Alexie: Up All Night". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.

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• If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

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  Kids, Stories, Chance

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• Don't live up to your stereotypes.

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  Stereotype

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• He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

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  Love, Choices, Courses

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Toughest Indian in the World”, p.198, Open Road Media

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• If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 30, 2015

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• Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

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  People, Mind, Littles

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

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  Hero, People, Decent

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• Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

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  Dream, Sweet, Smell

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• What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

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  Book, House, Kind

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

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  Rain, Dancing, Knows

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• The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

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  World, Filled, Smallest

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• If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

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  Rivers, World, Helping

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.96, Random House

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• I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

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  Book, Kissing, Intelligent

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.38, Random House

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• All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

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  Spiritual, Native American, Thinking

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• Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.

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  Jesus, Fart

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

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  Country, Past, Thinking

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

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  Writing, Native American, Ironic

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• A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

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  Community, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

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  Hate

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