Sherman Alexie Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teenager, Book, Writing

• Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

  Sherman Alexie

  Perseverance, Giving, Lessons

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.23, Random House

• She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Giving, Healthy

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.178, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Shine On, Circles

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

• Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

  Sherman Alexie

  Hate, Reflection, Giving

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