Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. — 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
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be… — 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
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
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
If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then… — 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
“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 often shamans because people just assumed that God gave seizure-visions to the lucky ones. Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
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
![“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)
