More From Sherman Alexie
- "When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."
- "My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me – not so much the positive stuff, but the damage."
- "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.’"
More In Amazing
- "The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action."― Madame de Stael
- "I mean, why am I considered an ‘it girl?’ Because I’m in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here’s the thing with ‘it girl’ status. It’s great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?"― Amanda Seyfried
- "My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East."― Andy Serkis