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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Sherman Alexie
Perseverance, Giving, Lessons
Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.23, Random House

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

Sherman Alexie
Hate, Reflection, Giving

She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

Sherman Alexie
Father, Giving, Healthy
Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.178, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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