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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

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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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Love
World
Navigate
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Rivers
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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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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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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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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.'
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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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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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .
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