I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“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 Image
