Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Poverty
Literature
Know
Related Quotes:
" When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. "
Sherman Alexie
First
You
Come
" A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. "
Sherman Alexie
Now
Literature
Young
" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "
Sherman Alexie
Time
You
People
" I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. "
Sherman Alexie
Want
Indian
Going
" My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. "
Sherman Alexie
You
Writing
Rearview
" All I owe the world is my art. "
Sherman Alexie
Owe
Art
World
" 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.' "
Sherman Alexie
School
Time
Woman
" When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. "
Sherman Alexie
Thanks
Thankful
Writing
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
School
You
Life
" Writing is a lonely business. "
Sherman Alexie
Business
Lonely
Writing
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Way
Angry
Think
" Spiritual matters should be private. "
Sherman Alexie
Should
Private
Matters
" All art is exploitation. "
Sherman Alexie
Exploitation
Art
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
You
Nobody
Assumptions
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Old
Love
Me
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Her
More
Own
" My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. "
Sherman Alexie
Name
Am
I Am
" I look more Indian when I'm serious. "
Sherman Alexie
Indian
Look
Serious
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Work
Live
American
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Writing
Enjoy
Know
" Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. "
Sherman Alexie
Nostalgia
Always
Doomed
" We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. "
Sherman Alexie
Indians
Indian
Been
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Who
Basketball
Political
" I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. "
Sherman Alexie
Weird
Book
Independent
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Me
Partner
Wife
" My father is an amazing man. "
Sherman Alexie
Man
Amazing
Father
" What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. "
Sherman Alexie
Poem
Inspires
Moment
" You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. "
Sherman Alexie
American
Rest
Culture
" The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. "
Sherman Alexie
More
Him
He
" 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. "
Sherman Alexie
Happy
Worst
Well