#it

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#admire #author #note #piece #read

All art is exploitation. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#exploitation

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. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#become #being #class #i #i think

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#exercise #i #newspaper #rather #read

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #i can #limited #real-world #terms

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

#because #come #dad #dated #go

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#both #damage #first #me #much

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#enjoy #form #forms #i #into

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

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White Americans have a short memory. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#short #short memory #white