Sherman Alexie

He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not green. He says everything is a matter of perception. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#inspirational

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#doomed #nostalgia

Spiritual matters should be private. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#private #should #spiritual

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

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #like #love #loved #me

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#basketball #basketball player #became #been #hasn

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 felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #created #felt #fled #having

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

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#me #moment #poem #usually