I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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
When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — 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
Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving,… — 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
Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any 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
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. — 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
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
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
...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito... — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic… — 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
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and… — 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
“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
