"...there are some children who aren't really children……" — Sherman Alexie
"...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals"
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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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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
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All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part...
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Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see…
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The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know…
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Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
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I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the…
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