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" All art is exploitation. "
Exploitation
Art
" All I owe the world is my art. "
Owe
Art
World
" A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. "
Now
Literature
Young
" But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. "
Attic
Real
Stuff
" Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. "
Way
Angry
Think
" Don't live up to your stereotypes. "
Live
Up
Your
" I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. "
Respect
Culture
Participate
" 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. "
Her
More
Own
" I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature. "
Literature
Think
People
" I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. "
Having
Career
Kid
" If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. "
Hands
Poems
Time
" I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. "
Up
Storytelling
American
" I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. "
Want
Indian
Going
" I look more Indian when I'm serious. "
Indian
Look
Serious
" I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. "
Exhausted
Emotion
Tired
" In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. "
Gifts
Way
Very
" 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.' "
School
Time
Woman
" In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. "
You
Nobody
Assumptions
" I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. "
Rather
Indian
Think
" I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. "
Women
Think
Strong
" I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. "
Literature
Writing
Nothing
" 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. "
Young
My Life
Personal
" I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. "
Weird
Book
Independent
" I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed. "
Controversial
Kid
Nothing
" My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. "
You
Writing
Rearview
" My father is an amazing man. "
Man
Amazing
Father
" My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. "
Father
Always
Sober
" My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. "
Night
Mystery
Life
" My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. "
Name
Am
I Am
" My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. "
Children
Rebel
Purpose
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