You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose… — 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
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when… — 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… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in. — 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
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
If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But… — 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
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all… — 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
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
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's… — 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
Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and… — 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
![“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact…” quote by Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/715/sherman-alexie-444_artist_they-ve-been-screaming-about-the-death-o_2593462.jpg)
![“Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.” quote by Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f88/sherman-alexie-444_bears_nobody-recognizes-that-a-bookstore-or-li_2604376.jpg)
