Sherman Alexie Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

  Sherman Alexie

  Perseverance, Giving, Lessons

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.23, Random House

• 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

  Thinking, Adults, Literature

• Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

  Sherman Alexie

  Shoes, Luxury, Worry

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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