Top 50 Quotes by Sherman Alexie

About Sherman Alexie

These are some quotes by American author Sherman Alexie Writer, who was born on October 7, 1966.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

Sherman Alexie

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Sherman Alexie

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Sherman Alexie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Sherman Alexie

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Sherman Alexie

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

Sherman Alexie

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Sherman Alexie

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Sherman Alexie

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

Sherman Alexie

All I owe the world is my art.

All I owe the world is my art.

Sherman Alexie

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