"It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to……" — Sherman Alexie
"It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps."
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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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People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I…
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Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're…
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish…
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
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When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things…
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it…
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