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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.' ↗


— Sherman Alexie


#because #come #dad #dated #go

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗


— Sherman Alexie


#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

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


#felt #gap #i #i think #know

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. ↗


— Sherman Alexie


#any #fight #forms #fundamentalism #happy

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ↗


— Matsuo Basho


#footsteps #seek #sought #wise

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. ↗


— Vittorio Alfieri


#crime #happiness #heaven #man #secures

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. ↗


— Muhammad Ali


#am #before #even #greatest #i

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. ↗


— Jean M. Auel


#like #myself #please #read #started

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. ↗


— Muhammad Ali


#far #found #get #guy #home






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