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Sherman Alexie

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

— Sherman Alexie live

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie men

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

— Sherman Alexie light

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

— Sherman Alexie change

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

— Sherman Alexie action

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie poetry

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

— Sherman Alexie conflict

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

— Sherman Alexie dream

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.

— Sherman Alexie life

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

— Sherman Alexie emotion

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

— Sherman Alexie children

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

— Sherman Alexie life

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.

— Sherman Alexie writing

All I owe the world is my art.

— Sherman Alexie art

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

— Sherman Alexie women

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

— Sherman Alexie real

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.

— Sherman Alexie man

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

— Sherman Alexie life

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

— Sherman Alexie nostalgia

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

— Sherman Alexie writing

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

— Sherman Alexie home

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

— Sherman Alexie man

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

— Sherman Alexie art

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

— Sherman Alexie life

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

— Sherman Alexie time

Dont live up to your stereotypes.

— Sherman Alexie live

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