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Sherman Alexie
American
Writer
Born:
Oct 7
,
1966
Indian
Me
People
Think
Writing
You
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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
Life
Own
Live
Borders
About
Crossing
More
Only
Individual
Adventurous
Know
Any
Happier
Should
Her
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman Alexie
You
Song
First
Out
Construct
Come
Mix
Tape
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
Sherman Alexie
Stuff
Attic
Real
Cellar
Interesting
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
Life
Good
You
People
School
White
Live
Good Life
Go
Shop
Where
Want
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
Fight
Think
Worst
About
Tendency
Part
Well
Any
Forms
Fundamentalism
Don't live up to your stereotypes.
Sherman Alexie
Live
Stereotypes
Up
Your
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
Every
Has-Been
Indian
Indians
Colonization
Know
Reaction
Were
Been
Europeans
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
Mirror
Indian
Indians
About
Least
Means
Your
Rearview
Rearview Mirror
Career
All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie
Art
World
Owe
The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
Sherman Alexie
Dream
More
He
Most
Him
Frightened
Needed
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.
Sherman Alexie
Tired
Experience
Exhausted
About
Physically
Emotion
Write
Writer
Hours
Hours And Hours
Method
Get
Order
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
Time
Me
You
Anger
Woman
Heart
School
White
Visit
High
Would
One Time
Indians
High School
Dated
He
Come
Like
She
Because
Go
Lot
Very
Who
Dad
Her
I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
Sherman Alexie
Arrogant
Nothing
Reservation
Changed
Kid
Opinionated
Controversial
Figure
White Americans have a short memory.
Sherman Alexie
Memory
White
American
Short
Short Memory
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
Sherman Alexie
Home
Father
He
Mostly
Always
His
Sober
Depressed
Room
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
Positive
Me
Wife
First
Partner
Both
Stuff
Parts
Understood
American
Native
Romantic
Much
Who
Damage
My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
Sherman Alexie
Name
Am
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.
Sherman Alexie
Life
Age
Lie
Father
Long
Sleepless
Books
Latest
Television
All Night
Bad
Mystery
He
Most
Him
Read
Comic
Bed
Comic Books
His
Spy
Five
Same
While
Awake
Novel
Watching
Night
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
World
Poverty
Think
Know
Felt
Lot
Literature
Certainly
Gap
Why
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.
Sherman Alexie
Class
People
Become
Think
Most
Lot
Being
Literature
Whole
Based
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
Sherman Alexie
Respect
Culture
Participate
Another
Order
Ceremonies
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
Sherman Alexie
Book
Independent
Weird
Wanted
Roots
My father is an amazing man.
Sherman Alexie
Man
Amazing
Father
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie
Think
Indian
Indians
Rather
Investigators
Cheerleaders
Cultural
Lot
Than
Artists
Want
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