Sherman Alexie Quotes about Heart

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In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

Sherman Alexie

Dad, Anger, Heart

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

Sherman Alexie

Eye, Heart, Dark

Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.147, Open Road Media

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

Sherman Alexie

Cancer, Heart, Dying

Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Sherman Alexie Quotes about Heart

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