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American Quotes by Sherman Alexie
- Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,…
- All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American…
- There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social…
- I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
- I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
- White Americans have a short memory.
- My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the…
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