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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Bleed
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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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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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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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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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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All art is exploitation.
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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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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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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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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