There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn’t been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
There isn’t a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don’t know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
I don’t think there’s a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don’t think of it as being class literature. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
You’d never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn’t like me when I was seven years old don’t like my books. Sherman Alexie Read Quote
