Sherman Alexie Quotes - Page 6

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

My father is an amazing man.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Spiritual matters should be private.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

Writing is a lonely business.

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.

One play can change your momentum forever.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.