I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native… — 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
“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
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive… — 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
