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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

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

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cook #cooking #everything #i #i do

When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife. ↗

— Gary Allan

#dancing #else #everybody #gets #gives

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#books #fact #get #great #i

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ↗

— Luther Allison

#blues #doors #i #left #lot

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerts #express #gig #helped #i

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me. ↗

— Mose Allison

#boogie #effect #era #favorites #had

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classical #classical composers #composers #different #doin

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. ↗

— Mose Allison

#fun #goin #gotta #in the end #lot