Sherman Alexie Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

  Sherman Alexie

  Struggle, Community, Life Is

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.127, Random House

• A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

  Sherman Alexie

  Community, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.

  Sherman Alexie

  Ethnicity, People, House

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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