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The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.
– Sherman Alexie

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  2. 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
  3. Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people. – John Duncan
  4. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
  5. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
  6. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
  7. I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
  8. Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie – Anita Silvey
  9. Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
  10. 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
  11. Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
  12. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  13. They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
  14. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  15. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
  16. 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
  17. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  18. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
  19. An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
  20. 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
  21. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
  22. 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
  23. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
  24. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
  25. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
  26. 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
  27. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
  28. She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence. – Bonnie Greer
  29. No matter how strong you are, you don’t just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  30. Fighting the good fight is not as easy when you’re fighting alone. – Joan Ambu
  31. On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth. – Criss Jami
  32. Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together. – Shannon L Alder
  33. She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face. – Jean Nathan
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  35. The Skinned Men kill again. – CK Walker
  36. I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart. – Julia L Roberts
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  38. «Couldn’t never be nothin’ but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I’d try then.» – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  39. You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by. – Lemony Snicket
  40. Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out – are. – Jon Stewart

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