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All I owe the world is my art.

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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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World
Art
Writing

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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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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 look more Indian when I'm serious.
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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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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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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.
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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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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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.
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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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Spiritual matters should be private.
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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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