- 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