Quote

The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

Sherman Alexie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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.
Culture
Population
Percentage
Art
Everyday
Percentages
Kids
General
Dominant
Stills
Singing
Unlike
Part
Creation
Indian
Still
Painting
Artistic
Work
Higher
Drawing
Much
Sort
Dancing
Peripheral

More quotes by Sherman Alexie

Image
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
Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Sherman Alexie
Image
In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
Sherman Alexie
Image
...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
Sherman Alexie
Image
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
Sherman Alexie
Image
That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
Sherman Alexie
Image
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
Sherman Alexie
Image
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)
Sherman Alexie
Image
He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
Sherman Alexie
Image
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
Sherman Alexie
Image
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.
Sherman Alexie
Image
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
Sherman Alexie
Image
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.
Sherman Alexie
Image
she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
Sherman Alexie
Image
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
Sherman Alexie
Image
Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
Sherman Alexie
Image
I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Sherman Alexie
Image
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
Sherman Alexie
Image
Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
Sherman Alexie