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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.

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Poor
Living
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Indians
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Everywhere

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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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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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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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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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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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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.
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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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