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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Better
Whenever
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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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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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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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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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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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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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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All art is exploitation.
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
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