"Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban……" — Sherman Alexie
"Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations."
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
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