Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman Alexie
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
Jr.
Constructs
Tape
Song
Firsts
Come
First
Construct
More quotes by Sherman Alexie
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
Sherman Alexie
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
Sherman Alexie
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Sherman Alexie
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Sherman Alexie
In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
Sherman Alexie
And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
Sherman Alexie
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
Sherman Alexie
We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
Sherman Alexie
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
Sherman Alexie
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
Sherman Alexie
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
Sherman Alexie
If it's fiction, then it better be true.
Sherman Alexie
I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Sherman Alexie
I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
Sherman Alexie
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.
Sherman Alexie
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
Sherman Alexie
They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
Sherman Alexie
All art is exploitation.
Sherman Alexie
If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.
Sherman Alexie
