“She’d been a resourceful thief, a narcissistic Robin Hood who stole a rich education from white people and kept it.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“She shook my hand, loosely, like Indians do, using only her fingers. Not like those tight grips that white people use to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald's. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A few days earlier, Chess and Thomas had driven to Spokane for a cheap hamburger. They walked in downtown Spokane and stumbled… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms. Their hands and fingers must be tragic when they… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“They're all gone, my tribe is gone. Those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox, have killed us. I'm the last, the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social lives of Indians. He… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
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… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“Gordy,” I said. “I need to talk to you." "I don't have time," he said. "Mr. Orcutt and I have to debug some PCs.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
“The United States wants all of us to forget the crimes it committed against the indigenous. The United States wants us to forget. The… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
