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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins he's better than Richard Wilbur he's better than me.

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Wellpinit
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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.
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101)
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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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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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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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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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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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 wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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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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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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