Sherman Alexie Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Order, Culture, Ceremony

• The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

  Sherman Alexie

  Art, Kids, Drawing

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

• 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.

  Sherman Alexie

  Community, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Culture, Storytelling, Grew Up

• I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Native American, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2001.

• They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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