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Don't live up to your stereotypes.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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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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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins he's better than Richard Wilbur he's better than me.
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If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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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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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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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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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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