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" 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. "

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" My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. "

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

" My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I look more Indian when I'm serious. "

" All I owe the world is my art. "

" My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. "

" All art is exploitation. "

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

" I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "