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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me…
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more…
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has…
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to…
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter…
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic…
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street…
— Frank O'Hara
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God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His…
— Lauren F. Winner
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Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured…
— Aldous Huxley
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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of…
— Louis Untermeyer
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance…
— Sherman Alexie
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