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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.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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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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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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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.
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All art is exploitation.
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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
Sherman Alexie
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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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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The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
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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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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
Sherman Alexie
The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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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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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Sherman Alexie
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
Sherman Alexie
The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
Sherman Alexie
I look more Indian when I'm serious.
Sherman Alexie
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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