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" Don't live up to your stereotypes. "

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" I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. "

" 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.' "

" Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. "

" When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. "

" White Americans have a short memory. "

" 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. "

" Spiritual matters should be private. "

" The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. "

" In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. "

" The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books. "

" 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. "

" We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. "

" When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. "

" 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. "

" But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. "

" A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. "

" If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. "

" I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. "

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. "

" My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. "

" I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. "