I was successful and acceptable and loved because I was – and still am – great at negotiating with whiteness. But that means my white friends often mistakenly believe that my ability to successfully negotiate the white world means that I am white – or more white than Native. My white friends can mistakenly believe that my intellectual and artistic abilities are intrinsically white.

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quotes

Why don’t you call somebody with the Coeur d’Alene tribe? A historian or somebody? Or be really crazy and ask one of our cousins what they know.” “I can’t,” I said. “I’m too embarrassed to let them know how much I don’t know.” “They’re sure gonna.

— Sherman Alexie

Grief is a plastic surgeon.

— Sherman Alexie

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself.

— Sherman Alexie

Well, you should be more careful where you drive,” the officer said. “You’re making people nervous. You don’t fit the profile of the neighborhood.” I wanted to tell him that I didn’t really fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

— Sherman Alexie

Self-preservation was my religion.

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I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what’s the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

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I’d wanted to say something epic and honest. But epics are rarely honest, and honesty should never be epic.

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I don’t grieve everybody that I have lost.

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It’s not like anybody’s going to notice if you go away,” he said. “So you might as well gut it out.” Isn’t.

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How many books do you have here?” Corliss asked. “Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven,” the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books?

— Sherman Alexie

But mostly it feels sad, often hopeless, and hot with loneliness.

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I stupidly hoped that time would stand still if I stayed still.

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Man, I’ve always cried too easily. I cry when I’m happy or sad. I cry when I’m angry. I cry because I’m crying. It’s weak. It’s the opposite of warrior.

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He’s a big, goofy dreamer, too, just like me. He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. So I draw cartoons to make him happy, to give him other worlds to live inside. I draw his dreams. And he only talks about his dreams with me. And I only talk about my dreams with him.

— Sherman Alexie

I want all kinds of strangers to love me. The Indian horses screamed.

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The old Indian women dipped wooden spoons into stews and stirred and stirred. The stews made of random vegetables and commodity food, of failed dreams and predictable tears.

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Silence was his short bow and quiver of arrows.

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If you weren’t good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own.

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I made a list of my favorite books: 1. The Grapes of Wrath 2. Catcher in the Rye 3. Fat Kid Rules the World 4. Tangerine 5. Feed 6. Catalyst 7. Invisible Man 8. Fools Crow 9. Jar of Fools.

— Sherman Alexie

Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.

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