"Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection,……" — Sherman Alexie
"Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?"
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that…
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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…
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
— William Butler Yeats
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... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that…
— Unknown Author
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Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have…
— J P Donleavy
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Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a…
— George Whitefield
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What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on…
— R. D. Laing
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As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
— Albert Einstein
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged…
— Leon Edel
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I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
— LaToya Jackson
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I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the…
— Jesse Metcalfe
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Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
— Goodman Ace
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to…
— Beatrix Campbell
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