Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds. Sherman Alexie More Quotes by Sherman Alexie More Quotes From Sherman Alexie I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. Sherman Alexie ceremony order culture Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace. Sherman Alexie wall dream song Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained. Sherman Alexie dancing knows rain He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous Sherman Alexie finishing tasks hard-work A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power. Sherman Alexie feeling-lost community feelings The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know. Sherman Alexie smallest filled world In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. Sherman Alexie cop assumption night I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird Sherman Alexie differences Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian. Sherman Alexie wheat-fields redneck dad I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble. Sherman Alexie girlfriend fighting country The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. Sherman Alexie frightened needed dream You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop. Sherman Alexie good-life white school If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. Sherman Alexie helping rivers world If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango. Sherman Alexie love-you running men I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce. Sherman Alexie sacrifice mean thinking Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Sherman Alexie ironic writing native-american You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191) Sherman Alexie hate We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. Sherman Alexie reactions colonization knows I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower. Sherman Alexie flower writing children Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all. Sherman Alexie library country people
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