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" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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