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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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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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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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One play can change your momentum forever.
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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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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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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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 don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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