I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. — 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
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
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
...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'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
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 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
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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)
