"I learned how to stop crying. I learned……" — Sherman Alexie
"I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb."
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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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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
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I love cold, rainy weather.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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