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You Quotes by Sherman Alexie
- When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
- In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the…
- My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
- In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't…
- You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
- You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where…
- The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that…
- When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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