- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Exploitation
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art is exploitation.
- Owe
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I owe the world is my art.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
- Nov 07, 2020
White Americans have a short memory.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
- All Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spiritual matters should be private.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look more Indian when I'm serious.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an amazing man.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't live up to your stereotypes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doomed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020