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Top 400 Sherman Alexie Quotes (2026 Update)
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Sherman Alexie Quote: “My father is an amazing man.”

251. “My father is an amazing man.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “Man, I’ve always cried too easily. I cry when I’m happy or sad. I cry when I’m angry. I cry because I’m crying. It’s weak. It’s the opposite of warrior.”

252. “Man, I’ve always cried too easily. I cry when I’m happy or sad. I cry when I’m angry. I cry because I’m crying. It’s weak. It’s the opposite of warrior.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn’t want to be another disappointing Indian.”

253. “I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn’t want to be another disappointing Indian.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That’s all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world’s wisdom is not contained in books.”

254. “Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That’s all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world’s wisdom is not contained in books.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I’m a poet who can whine in meter.”

255. “I’m a poet who can whine in meter.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “The fear of poetry was multicultural and timeless.”

256. “The fear of poetry was multicultural and timeless.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “But I stopped crying when I noticed that very few people were being openly emotional. I’d never seen that many stoic people at a funeral. I’d never experienced a silent and polite funeral. My tribe doesn’t bury our dead that way. We wail, weep, and tell dirty jokes at graveside.”

257. “But I stopped crying when I noticed that very few people were being openly emotional. I’d never seen that many stoic people at a funeral. I’d never experienced a silent and polite funeral. My tribe doesn’t bury our dead that way. We wail, weep, and tell dirty jokes at graveside.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “If a poet falls in a forest, and there’s nobody there to hear him, does he make a metaphor or simile?”

258. “If a poet falls in a forest, and there’s nobody there to hear him, does he make a metaphor or simile?”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.”

259. “I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.”

260. “Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Hunger is my crime.”

261. “Hunger is my crime.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “That’s one more thing people don’t know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.”

262. “That’s one more thing people don’t know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism – in order to believe themselves to be nonracist.”

263. “I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism – in order to believe themselves to be nonracist.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “Aren’t all crimes, by definition, hate crimes? I mean, people don’t rob banks because they love tellers.”

264. “Aren’t all crimes, by definition, hate crimes? I mean, people don’t rob banks because they love tellers.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “He doesn’t hurt you because you’re the only good thing in his life. He doesn’t want to give that up. It’s the only thing he hasn’t given up.”

265. “He doesn’t hurt you because you’re the only good thing in his life. He doesn’t want to give that up. It’s the only thing he hasn’t given up.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?”

266. “What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “Your mother is a better man than me. Mothers are almost always better men than men are.”

267. “Your mother is a better man than me. Mothers are almost always better men than men are.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “That’s just a fancy way of calling me a liar,” I said. “If the moccasin fits, then wear it,” she said.”

268. “That’s just a fancy way of calling me a liar,” I said. “If the moccasin fits, then wear it,” she said.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Each of us – rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white – we are fragile and finite. We all go through this glorious life without guarantees, without promises of rescue or redemption. We have freedom of speech and religion, and the absolute freedom to leave behind our loved ones, or to force them to unhappily pursue us.”

269. “Each of us – rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white – we are fragile and finite. We all go through this glorious life without guarantees, without promises of rescue or redemption. We have freedom of speech and religion, and the absolute freedom to leave behind our loved ones, or to force them to unhappily pursue us.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All i want to know is who’s going to ick up all the dirty socks?”

270. “Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All i want to know is who’s going to ick up all the dirty socks?”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.”

271. “If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “She never opened up a canyon in her soul and silently disappeared into the dark recesses.”

272. “She never opened up a canyon in her soul and silently disappeared into the dark recesses.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “They wanted to help me with my pain.”

273. “They wanted to help me with my pain.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Even Crazy Horse, the famous Oglala warrior, was named for his father. But nobody called him Junior, for rather logical reasons. “Look! There’s the most feared and mysterious Indian of all time! Behold! It is Junior!”

274. “Even Crazy Horse, the famous Oglala warrior, was named for his father. But nobody called him Junior, for rather logical reasons. “Look! There’s the most feared and mysterious Indian of all time! Behold! It is Junior!”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Elvis Presley is still showing up in 7-11 stores across the country, even though he’s been dead for years, so I figure music just might be the most important thing there is.”

275. “Elvis Presley is still showing up in 7-11 stores across the country, even though he’s been dead for years, so I figure music just might be the most important thing there is.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I wasn’t afraid of the dark nearly as much as I was afraid of the monsters who hunted by night and day.”

276. “I wasn’t afraid of the dark nearly as much as I was afraid of the monsters who hunted by night and day.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I suppose, in many ways, one never stops loving the people they loved during their youth. Or hating the people they hated.”

277. “I suppose, in many ways, one never stops loving the people they loved during their youth. Or hating the people they hated.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.”

278. “I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.”

279. “Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “I think you forget things on purpose,” my mother’s ghost said.”

280. “I think you forget things on purpose,” my mother’s ghost said.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.”

281. “When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “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.”

282. “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.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Political Correctness has forced racists to become poets.”

283. “Political Correctness has forced racists to become poets.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “I pretended I belonged.”

284. “I pretended I belonged.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “It made me cry for myself.”

285. “It made me cry for myself.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”

286. “We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.”

287. “Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “But people forget.”

288. “But people forget.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are only coin flips: heads or tails; benign or malignant; weight loss or bloating; morphine or oxycodone; extreme rescue efforts or Do Not Resuscitate; live or die.”

289. “I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are only coin flips: heads or tails; benign or malignant; weight loss or bloating; morphine or oxycodone; extreme rescue efforts or Do Not Resuscitate; live or die.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “The contemporary motto for the mullet-wearer is “business in front, party in the back” but the Indian mullet warrior motto was “I don’t want my hair to get in my eyes as I’m kicking your ass.”

290. “The contemporary motto for the mullet-wearer is “business in front, party in the back” but the Indian mullet warrior motto was “I don’t want my hair to get in my eyes as I’m kicking your ass.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed and swallowed the last pieces of his father’s life. He felt like he was building a museum of pain, a freak show, where he was the only visitor viewing the only mutant screaming the only prayer he knew: Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back Daddy...”

291. “He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed and swallowed the last pieces of his father’s life. He felt like he was building a museum of pain, a freak show, where he was the only visitor viewing the only mutant screaming the only prayer he knew: Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back Daddy...”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “But he wasn’t ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness.”

292. “But he wasn’t ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life.”

293. “She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “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.”

294. “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.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Sometimes we meet a character and we fall so hopelessly in love with him or her that we want to be that character, no matter how tough they have it, no matter how they might mess things up.”

295. “Sometimes we meet a character and we fall so hopelessly in love with him or her that we want to be that character, no matter how tough they have it, no matter how they might mess things up.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “I wasn’t shocked and I’m still not shocked. It’s total exploitation, with everything up for grabs. Health care, gone. Destroy the environment in search of more profit. State-sponsored violence. Targeted incarceration. You know what’s happening, though: The whole country is becoming a reservation.”

296. “I wasn’t shocked and I’m still not shocked. It’s total exploitation, with everything up for grabs. Health care, gone. Destroy the environment in search of more profit. State-sponsored violence. Targeted incarceration. You know what’s happening, though: The whole country is becoming a reservation.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Quote: “I don’t think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.”

297. “I don’t think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

298. “Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “She kissed him like he was a warrior; she kissed him like she was a warrior.”

299. “She kissed him like he was a warrior; she kissed him like she was a warrior.”

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Sherman Alexie Quote: “In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.”

300. “In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.”

— Sherman Alexie

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