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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
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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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.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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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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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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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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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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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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Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
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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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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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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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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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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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One play can change your momentum forever.
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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