"I don't have to participate in another culture's……" — Sherman Alexie
"I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture."
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie has 178 quotes on this site.
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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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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
— Jimmy Carter
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us…
— Robert D. Hales
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but…
— Florence Nightingale
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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted…
— Peter Canisius
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions…
— Noah Webster
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The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
— George C. Scott
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy…
— Jonathan Pryce
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A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer…
— Kenneth Anger
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Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass…
— Unknown Author
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