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The ordinary can be like medicine.

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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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Medicine
Ordinary
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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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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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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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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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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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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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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
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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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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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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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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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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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