Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr., born October 7, 1966) is an American poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1966
CityWelpinet, WA
CountryUnited States of America
Sherman Alexie quotes about
cancer heart dying
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.
running oil world
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
what-if noses rowdy
What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.
people meeting-new-people knows
That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.
hate reflection giving
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
liars lied should
We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.
white people way
Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.
pain kind
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
baseball mother player
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
way should
I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
pain addiction going-away
There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
two people world
The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
kids cells white
They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
eye talking voice
it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words