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All art is exploitation.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Exploitation
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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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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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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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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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 used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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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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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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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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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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