American - Writer | October 7, 1966 -
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
Sherman Alexie
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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.
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I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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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 Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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My father is an amazing man.
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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.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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