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I'm a poet who can whine in meter

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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Whine
Meter
Poet

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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.
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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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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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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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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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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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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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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.
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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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One play can change your momentum forever.
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