Sherman Alexie Quotes - Page 6

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• I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

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  Book, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love to scare the already terrified assholes.

  Sherman Alexie

  Scare

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

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  New York, Thinking, People

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

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• Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

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  Winter, Night, Feet

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

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  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

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  Celebrate, Allusion

  Sherman Alexie (2000). “One Stick Song”

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• We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

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  Jesus, Body, Bread

  Sherman Alexie (2000). “One Stick Song”

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• We only know how to lose and be lost.

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  Lost, Know How, Knows

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• I'm a poet who can whine in meter

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  Poet, Meter

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.24, Open Road Media

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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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  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

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  People, Funny Food, Dies

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• But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

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  Mean, Player, Expectations

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• One play can change your momentum forever.

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  Play, Forever, Momentum

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

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  Hate, Reflection, Giving

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• What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

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  What If, Rowdy, Noses

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• We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

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  Liars, Lied, Should

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.19, Random House

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• There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

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  Pain, Addiction, Going Away

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• And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.

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  Girl, Dream, Fun

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• I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

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  Way, Should

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• Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

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  Mother, Dog, Honesty

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

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  Successful, Feelings, Want

  "All rage and heart" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

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  Inspire, Moments

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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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  Real, World, Way

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• My father is an amazing man.

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  Father, Men, Amazing Man

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• Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

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  Nostalgia, Doomed

  "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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