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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Hands
Writing
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Poems

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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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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.
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
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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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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - Indian Boy Love Song #1
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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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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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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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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All I owe the world is my art.
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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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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