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Thinking Quotes by 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 political and social…
- 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…
- At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural…
- 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 emotion.
- I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
- The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives…
- 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 I felt a…
- Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm…
- I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
- I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
- When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old,…
- I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure.…
- I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this…
- ...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 don't know what…
- Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito...
- Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few…
- I think I was born with a suitcase.
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