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Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie

“All art is exploitation.”

- Sherman Alexie

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“All I owe the world is my art.”

- Sherman Alexie

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

- Sherman Alexie

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

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

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“When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.”

- Sherman Alexie

Source/Notes: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)
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“He hated to leave, but he loved his work. He was a man, and men needed to work. More sexism! More masculine tunnel vision! More need for gender-sensitivity workshops!”

- Sherman Alexie

Source/Notes: Ten Little Indians (2003)
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“He wondered if she would dream about a man who never left her, about some unemployed agoraphobic Indian warrior who liked to wash dishes.”

- Sherman Alexie

Source/Notes: Ten Little Indians (2003)
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“I don't want long hair, I don't want short hair, I don't want hair at all, and I don't want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow-orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.”

- Sherman Alexie

Source/Notes: Ten Little Indians (2003)
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Sherman Alexie

“Oh, I'm sorry, sir, if I offended you. I am not anti-Semitic. I love all of my brothers and sisters. Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, even the atheists, I love them all. Like you Americans sing, 'Joy to the world and Jeremiah Bullfrog!”

- Sherman Alexie

Source/Notes: Ten Little Indians (2003)
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“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

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“All I owe the world is my art.”

- Sherman Alexie

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“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

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

- Sherman Alexie

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