"It's not oil that runs the world, it's…" — Sherman Alexie
"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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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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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the…
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
— Aeschylus
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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