Sherman Alexie quote: "The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets."

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been coloniz...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Oh, no, no, you've got that all wrong. You're not required to respect elders. After all, most people...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're r...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I li...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

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

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more s...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural invest...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and Whi...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beig...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing In...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identifi...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

All of these white kids and teachers, who were so suspicious of me when I first arrived, had learned...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Writing is a lonely business.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Mick had once come across one of Wilson't books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover....
SHERMAN ALEXIE

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagin...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

A...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until i...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don&#...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They rea...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

You meet me after school right here", I said.
"Why?" he asked.
I couldn't believe he was s...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories ...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

My grandmother's greatest gift was tolerance. Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of ...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, re...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
SHERMAN ALEXIE

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

All I owe the world is my art.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

All art is exploitation.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, be...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity,...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

It made me cry for myself.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and ar...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

But I don't know how much joy she experienced while loving me. I don't know how much joy I was capab...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

They wanted to help me with my pain.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and agai...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I can't remember how to cry.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't suppose...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

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

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian i...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

The world is too fucking big. Sometimes, I can't even carry myself through all the love and fear.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

White Americans have a short memory.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to ...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I thi...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costs

And benefits of loving those who don...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddam...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrim...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you kno...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

They're all gone, my tribe is gone. Those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox, have killed...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make thei...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Don't live up to your stereotypes.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I then vowed to finally finish the years-late sequel to my best-selling book The Absolutely True Dia...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Poetry = Anger x Imagination
SHERMAN ALEXIE

My memory is strange that way. I often remember people I've never met and events and places I've nev...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imag...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

If it's fiction, then it better be true.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teache...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
SHERMAN ALEXIE

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were o...
SHERMAN ALEXIE

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of choles...
ALLAN SHERMAN

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
ROGER SHERMAN

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other ha...
ALLAN SHERMAN

In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ...
GARY SHERMAN

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN

Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu...
GARY SHERMAN

One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film...
GARY SHERMAN

I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c...
GARY SHERMAN

I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events t...
GARY SHERMAN

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems ...
GARY SHERMAN

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

I was surprised Russell (Baze, the rider of Lost in the Fog) didn't lay back a bit, but I think he k...
ALAN SHERMAN

In north Biscayne Bay, there are schools of small pilchards, threadfin herring, large Spanish sardin...
ALAN SHERMAN

She is here every Saturday, helping with services for over 20 years. She passes out prayer books, he...
ALAN SHERMAN

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people a...
ALAN SHERMAN

In general, if nonaffiliated Jews want to go to High Holy Day services, they will have to purchase t...
ALAN SHERMAN

each of the members of our first team is much better than our coach.
ALAN SHERMAN

Recruiting is very competitive, ... It was very difficult to attract some of these players.
ALAN SHERMAN

brought, with a sense of justice, dignity to all those who perished. They died in such gruesome and ...
ALAN SHERMAN

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
HAROLD SHERMAN

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

Not every website has that kind of success. We just have a highly targeted audience,
ALIZA SHERMAN

I think for too long, ... women didn't have either access to the right tools or to the right positio...
ALIZA SHERMAN

I admire Martha Stewart a lot for the way she has branded herself ... in many different media,
ALIZA SHERMAN

We're making money? We're also incurring amazing expenses -- huge -- as we hire more people, want mo...
ALIZA SHERMAN

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.
HAROLD SHERMAN

Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior...
ELAINE SHERMAN

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in Califor...
ALLAN SHERMAN

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the...
BRAD SHERMAN

Accessibility is key. MMOs are great for traditional gamers who have a lot of time to become immerse...
CRAIG SHERMAN

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
BRAD SHERMAN

The buzz I'm hearing around town is he's a relatively unknown choice, but an interesting one. It wil...
ANDREW SHERMAN

Grow Fast Grow Right's educational events and training are organized around three pillars: financial...
ANDREW SHERMAN

Clinicians and high-risk pregnant women should be aware of this research outcome so that we can avoi...
ANDREW SHERMAN

Of course, you are going to offend somebody. But if your life's work is going to be run into the gro...
ANDREW SHERMAN

You don't have to turn over management decisions to your children, even if you feel it's right to gi...
ANDREW SHERMAN

It's harder for people to make good business decisions when there's family involved -- the family is...
ANDREW SHERMAN

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any ...
CINDY SHERMAN

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
ALLAN SHERMAN

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting ha...
ALLAN SHERMAN

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Ho...
ALLAN SHERMAN

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

Four times I looked for psychiatric help, and each time I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that...
ALLAN SHERMAN

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highes...
ALLAN SHERMAN

The whole city (Los Angeles) gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one...
ALLAN SHERMAN

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of co...
ALLAN SHERMAN

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oi...
BRAD SHERMAN

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.
BOBBY SHERMAN

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They...
CINDY SHERMAN

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who str...
BRAD SHERMAN

There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren'...
CINDY SHERMAN

I don't believe in curses. I believe in God.
RICHARD SHERMAN

We don't have any indication of that at this point. There was no indication it was an animal rights'...
BRUCE SHERMAN

We're very fortunate to be able to present Ms. Calderon with her group.
BRUCE SHERMAN

We anticipate that other shareholders would strongly support the board's efforts to auction the comp...
BRUCE SHERMAN

We may look mild, but we're wild.
BRUCE SHERMAN

It really requires ice in your veins and good conviction.
BRUCE SHERMAN

substantially in excess of the current share price.
BRUCE SHERMAN

This center will greatly benefit students who will one day be alumni themselves.
BRUCE SHERMAN

It is most appropriate that the entrance to this beautiful facility ? a facility that was constructe...
BRUCE SHERMAN

I believe the team is being fair in its decision for this weekend. Although I am not currently in a ...
BRENT SHERMAN

I learned a couple of things. I'm not the greatest cook, but the basics were a great start, and it w...
BRENT SHERMAN

I'm not focused on exactly where I want to finish. I'm focused on finishing each week the best I pos...
BRENT SHERMAN

It's all about the comfort food. It takes time to make a lot of stuff.
BRENT SHERMAN

It's definitely going to be a tough season. I feel like some of the rookies have a good shot at fini...
BRENT SHERMAN

Apparently, logic doesn't count when a powerful Republican is involved,
BRAD SHERMAN

I think historians in the future may wonder why in our defense budget we spent so much defending our...
BRAD SHERMAN

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another on...
BRAD SHERMAN

Because that is what the President of Afghanistan was saying. If you're here on behalf of the State ...
BRAD SHERMAN

The process of making art frees people from the pressures of their illness and offers them a means o...
BRAD SHERMAN

the House weren't a rubber stamp for this administration.
BRAD SHERMAN

In the last six weeks, Bill Thomas' Kern County has just gotten way more than it deserves, and I kno...
BRAD SHERMAN

[China Lake is located in the district of Congressman Bill Thomas, the influential chairman of the H...
BRAD SHERMAN

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
BOBBY SHERMAN

Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific.
BOBBY SHERMAN

Basically, I'm 51, going on 45. Or as Jack Benny might have said, I'm still 39!
BOBBY SHERMAN

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on P...
BOBBY SHERMAN

Being involved with show business gave me a lot of experience in dealing with stress, which, in a wa...
BOBBY SHERMAN

Yes, I'm planning to go out again next summer, on concert tour, as a result of the success of the bo...
BOBBY SHERMAN

The only person who didn't do Shindig was Presley.
BOBBY SHERMAN

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
BOBBY SHERMAN

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.
BOBBY SHERMAN

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.
BOBBY SHERMAN

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomi...
ROGER SHERMAN

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the co...
SHERMAN AUSTIN

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.
ROGER SHERMAN

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers...
SHERMAN AUSTIN

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
CINDY SHERMAN

We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of theft is taking ...
CARY SHERMAN

As long as students continue to corrupt this specialized academic network for the flagrant theft of ...
CARY SHERMAN

Consumers should not be able to listen to any music or enjoy any movie anywhere without our approval...
CARY SHERMAN

Internet2 networking is an incredibly exciting tool for researchers, technologists and many others i...
CARY SHERMAN

Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation. But when your product is being re...
CARY SHERMAN

Campus LAN piracy is not new, yet the problem has taken on new urgency. We know from past experience...
CARY SHERMAN

The problem we had with the RIO was that it could exacerbate the MP3 piracy problem by encouraging m...
CARY SHERMAN

We are thrilled to see the number of schools offering legitimate services more than triple in the la...
CARY SHERMAN

We look forward to collaborative work with a broad spectrum of Internet2's members to develop new te...
CARY SHERMAN

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.
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