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" I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. "
Sherman Alexie
Want
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. "
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" A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. "
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" 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. "
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" I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. "
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" 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. "
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" In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. "
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" 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.' "
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" If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. "
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" When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. "
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Thankful
Writing
" I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. "
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" I look more Indian when I'm serious. "
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" My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. "
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" 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. "
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