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An Indian's wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.
– Sherman Alexie

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  1. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
  2. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
  3. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
  4. I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
  5. If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
  6. Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie – Anita Silvey
  7. Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
  8. There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) – Sherman Alexie
  9. Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
  10. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  11. They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
  12. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  13. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
  14. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
  15. He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words. – Sherman Alexie
  16. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  17. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
  18. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn’t actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. – Sherman Alexie
  19. You’re always making up stuff from the past,- she said. -œAnd the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. – Sherman Alexie
  20. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
  21. They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
  22. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
  23. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
  24. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
  25. 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. – Sherman Alexie
  26. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
  27. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. I don’t need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me. – Anne L Parks
  29. Wealth in money, mineral resources are not the real wealth. The true wealth of nation is the character of her people. – Sunday Adelaja
  30. To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  31. It’s not about Indians, it’s about people… the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. – Larry Stillday – Michael Meuers
  32. The Indians say to draw someone’s portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them? – TA
  33. The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit. – Damon Galgut
  34. It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit? – Miles Davis
  35. We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ. – Jean Baudrillard
  36. According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats. – Nancy B Brewer
  37. If you’re determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you’re determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key! – Israelmore Ayivor
  38. A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done – Marge Piercy
  39. Your worth cannot be determined by the value others place on you it can only be determined by what you know to be true about yourself – Blake Higginbotham
  40. With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself. – Natalia Marx

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