Sherman Alexie

“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass…

— Sherman Alexie

“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated.…

— Sherman Alexie

Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God…

— Sherman Alexie

“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years…

— Sherman Alexie

“In all those stories, I could fly.”

— Sherman Alexie

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

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

— Sherman Alexie

“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If…

— Sherman Alexie

“Son, things have never been like how you think they used to be.”

— Sherman Alexie

My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes…

— Sherman Alexie

“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make…

— Sherman Alexie

“Gordy,” I said. “I need to talk to you." "I don't have time," he said. "Mr. Orcutt and I have to debug…

— Sherman Alexie

“The United States wants all of us to forget the crimes it committed against the indigenous. The United States wants us to…

— Sherman Alexie

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

When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of…

— Sherman Alexie

“In the indigenous world, we assign sacred value to circles. But sometimes a circle just means you keep returning to the same…

— Sherman Alexie

“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents,…

— Sherman Alexie

“Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped…

— Sherman Alexie

“Hey, Arnold," he said. I looked up 'in love with a white girl' on Google and found and article about that white…

— Sherman Alexie

“He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want…

— Sherman Alexie

“And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read becuase they live in…

— Sherman Alexie

“Dear friends, my brain— Unpredictable as it was—is even more unpredictable now. But thank God for all of the ways in which…

— Sherman Alexie

“Jesus, I don’t want to die today or tomorrow, but I don’t want to live forever.”

— Sherman Alexie

“If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.”

— Sherman Alexie