Sherman Alexie Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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

• Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

  Sherman Alexie

  Drinking, Feelings, World

  "True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, www.theguardian.com. 2007.

• 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

• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Successful, Feelings, Want

  "All rage and heart" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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