Quote

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Sherman Alexie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
Jr.
Poor
Doesn
Give
Teaches
Giving
Perseverance
Lessons
Poverty
Strength
Teach

More quotes by Sherman Alexie

Image
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.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie
Image
We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Sherman Alexie
Image
...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
Sherman Alexie
Image
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.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
Sherman Alexie
Image
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
Sherman Alexie
Image
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
Sherman Alexie
Image
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
Sherman Alexie
Image
Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
Sherman Alexie
Image
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.
Sherman Alexie
Image
Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
Sherman Alexie
Image
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
Sherman Alexie
Image
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
Sherman Alexie
Image
We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
Sherman Alexie
Image
The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
Sherman Alexie
Image
Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
Sherman Alexie