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Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.

Fun, Character, Mean, 140, Social

The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

Art, Dancing, Drawing, Kids, Singing, Work

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

Agendas, Anger, Historians, Selfishness, Think, Thinking

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

Hands, Know, Mean, Messy, Order, Somebody

I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

Writing, Blood, Remember, Bleed, Like

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G. W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

Book, Bush, Kings, Reading, Ways

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

Americans, Dubious, Ideas, Indian, Native American, War

Like officer Dave. He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

Dave, Recognize, Said, Scarred, Smell

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Helping, Helps, Navigate, Rivers, World, Wrong

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Broken, Cartoon, Floods, Lifeboats, Series, Thinking

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

Community, Cultural, Destroyed, Economic, Feeling Lost, Feelings

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

Allusion, Celebrate, Let, Literary

Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

Country, Library, Newspapers, People, See

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Artist, Cheerleaders, Indians, Think, Thinking, Want

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

Meeting New People, People, Point, Whole

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

Birthplaces, Boy, Dream, Loneliness, Lonely, Millions

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

Funny, Littles, Mind, Minds, People, Politeness

Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

Dream, Fry, Shaking, Smell, Sweet, Talk

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

16Th, Back, Country, Hate, Xenophobia

The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.

Attracted, Beautiful, Cello, Curves, Play

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