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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
- Sherman Alexie
#American
#Me
#Positive
#Romantic
#Wife
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
- Sherman Alexie
#Heritage
#Political
#Professional
#Who
In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
- Sherman Alexie
#Anger
#Dad
#Heart
#Me
#Time
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
- Sherman Alexie
#Know
#People
#Poetry
#Speak
#Time
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
- Sherman Alexie
#Enjoy
#Know
#Lead
#Three
#Two
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
- Sherman Alexie
#Life
#My Life
#Point
#Selfish
#Young
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
- Sherman Alexie
#Attic
#Cellar
#Interesting
#Real
#Stuff
You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
- Sherman Alexie
#Good Life
#Good
#Life
#Live
#School
All art is exploitation.
- Sherman Alexie
#Art
#Exploitation
My father is an amazing man.
- Sherman Alexie
#Amazing
#Father
#Man
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
- Sherman Alexie
#Hands
#Poems
#Time
#Washing
#Writing
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
- Sherman Alexie
#Always
#Doomed
#Nostalgia
Writing is a lonely business.
- Sherman Alexie
#Business
#Lonely
#Writing
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
#Emotions
#Matter
#Simple
#Try
#Young
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
- Sherman Alexie
#Feeling
#Going
#Indian
#Successful
#Want
All I owe the world is my art.
- Sherman Alexie
#Art
#Owe
#World
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.
- Sherman Alexie
#Know
#Life
#Live
#More
#Own
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
- Sherman Alexie
#Authority
#Children
#Purpose
#Rebel
Don't live up to your stereotypes.
- Sherman Alexie
#Live
#Stereotypes
#Up
#Your
The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
- Sherman Alexie
#Dream
#He
#More
#Most
#Needed
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
- Sherman Alexie
#Admire
#Note
#Thankful
#Thanks
#Writing
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