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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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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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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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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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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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