Sherman Alexie

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”

“We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.”

“My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.”

“I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.”

“When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.”

“I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.”