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Sherman Alexie quotes

American Writer October 7, 1966

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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants. Sherman Alexie
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. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "Summer coming like a car from down the highway."
Summer coming like a car from down the highway. Sherman Alexie
...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.''Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be. Sherman Alexie
...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
James tells the crowd that the river is just a few yards from where we stand is all we ever need to believe in. One white woman asks how old James is and I tell her he's seven and she tells me that he's so smart for an Indian boy. James hears this and tells the white woman that she's pretty smart for an old white woman. Sherman Alexie
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. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no..."
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea. Sherman Alexie
4.On the first night of our honeymoonwe lie in bed, too exhausted for sexor conversation. Instead, we listento the surf, wave after wave after wave. Sherman Alexie
It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent,..."
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. Sherman Alexie
Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald's. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn't care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald's would introduce onion rings to its menu. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "I think all of us are always five years old in the presence..."
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "My father is an amazing man."
My father is an amazing man. Sherman Alexie
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? Sherman Alexie

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