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" Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. "

" I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. "

" White Americans have a short memory. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Writing is a lonely business. "

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

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

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

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