--- title: "13 Knows Quotes By Sherman Alexie" description: "13 Knows quotes by Sherman Alexie. Plus more from Sherman Alexie and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/sherman-alexie-444_dry_the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduce_1578204.png" --- > [The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduced-to-this-sort-of-dry/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/sherman-alexie-444_dry_the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduce_1578204.png) > [I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-know-a-lot-about-being-white-because-i-have-to-i-live-in-the-white/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/sherman-alexie-444_every-day_i-know-a-lot-about-being-white-because-i_2275276.jpg) > [Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/because-i-m-an-american-i-know-there-s-all-sorts-of-international/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/sherman-alexie-444_folks_because-i-m-an-american-i-know-there-s-a_486223.png) > [Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/also-because-i-m-ambiguously-ethnic-looking-you-know-i-come-to-new/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/sherman-alexie-444_ethnic_also-because-i-m-ambiguously-ethnic-look_1094396.png) > [At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/at-least-half-the-country-thinks-the-mascot-issue-is-insignificant/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b90/sherman-alexie-444_casinos_at-least-half-the-country-thinks-the-mas_656990.png) > [When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/when-you-re-depressed-you-know-it-s-like-the-world-has-ended-even/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/sherman-alexie-444_amount_when-you-re-depressed-you-know-it-s-like_90713.jpg) > [Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/do-you-understand-how-amazing-it-is-to-hear-that-from-an-adult-do-you/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/716/sherman-alexie-444_adults_do-you-understand-how-amazing-it-is-to-h_318416.png) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-know-i-ll-keep-writing-poems-that-s-the-constant-i-don-t-know-about/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/sherman-alexie-444_books_i-know-i-ll-keep-writing-poems-that-s-th_3006809.png) > [A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/a-lot-of-native-culture-has-been-destroyed-so-you-already-feel-lost/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/sherman-alexie-444_add_a-lot-of-native-culture-has-been-destroy_2522562.jpg) > [I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-end-up-feeling-like-a-spy-in-the-house-of-ethnicity-you-know/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/sherman-alexie-444_community_i-end-up-feeling-like-a-spy-in-the-house_1780348.jpg) > [In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/in-order-to-know-somebody-through-their-words-i-mean-it-has-to-be-an/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/sherman-alexie-444_five_in-order-to-know-somebody-through-their_2709109.jpg) > [The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/the-cello-looks-like-a-woman-to-me-and-you-know-the-curves-and-so-i/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/sherman-alexie-444_beautiful_the-cello-looks-like-a-woman-to-me-and-y_1004336.png) > [I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-ll-quit-eating-meat-when-you-get-a-cow-out-here-to-beat-me-at-a/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/sherman-alexie-444_animal_i-ll-quit-eating-meat-when-you-get-a-cow_857631.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Sherman Alexie > [“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/he-says-the-earth-is-an-oval-marble-that-nobody-can-win-he-says-the/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/now-in-the-old-days-indians-used-to-be-forgiving-of-any-kind-of/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/since-jesus-was-human-then-he-most-assuredly-farted-and-burped-and-if/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/a-century-ago-she-might-have-been-beautiful-her-face-reflected-in-the/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“In all those stories, I could fly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/in-all-those-stories-i-could-fly/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-don-t-think-there-s-a-whole-lot-of-class-literature-at-all-i-think/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/she-wanted-to-be-buried-in-a-coffin-filled-with-used-paperbacks/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/is-there-really-a-difference-between-that-killing-and-this-killing/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“Son, things have never been like how you think they used to be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/son-things-have-never-been-like-how-you-think-they-used-to-be/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/my-parents-banned-nothing-though-the-christian-fundamentalists-in-my/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/or-maybe-i-could-have-anesthetized-myself-with-homework-and-extra/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/dear-wife-i-m-sorry-that-i-am-mysteriously-incapable-of-folding-clean/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/gordy-i-said-i-need-to-talk-to-you-i-don-t-have-time-he-said-mr/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [“The United States wants all of us to forget the crimes it committed against the indigenous. The United States wants us to forget. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/the-united-states-wants-all-of-us-to-forget-the-crimes-it-committed/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-think-that-white-women-are-more-apt-to-read-laterally-so-i-think/) [Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/sherman-alexie/#itemlist", "name": "13 Knows Quotes By Sherman Alexie", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sherman Alexie" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduced-to-this-sort-of-dry/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/sherman-alexie-444_dry_the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduce_1578204.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/sherman-alexie-444_dry_the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduce_1578204.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/sherman-alexie-444_dry_the-poetry-if-you-will-of-life-is-reduce_1578204.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort…” — Sherman Alexie", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. 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