Author: Sherman Alexie

Cites

• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is another world, but it is in this one.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Charles (Jazz musician) Mingus (1)
  • IN: Reservation Blues (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God’s old lady, she sure is a big chick.
    FROM: Beneath the Underdog, (1971), Book, US
• Robert Johnson (1)
  • IN: Reservation Blues (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I went to the crossroad fell down on my knees I went to the crossroad fell down on my knees
    FROM: Cross Road Blues, (1937), Song, US
• Alex Kuo (1)
  • IN: Indian Killer (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are what We have lost
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, US
• Kurt Vonnegut (1)
  • IN: Flight (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Po-tee-weet?”
    FROM: Slaughterhouse-Five, (1969), Novel, US
• Sappho (1)
  • IN: Ten Little Indians (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love — bittersweet, irrepressible— loosens my limbs and I tremble.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Greece
• Sherman Alexie (1)
  • IN: War Dances (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I SAW A MAN swerve his car And try to hit a stray dog, But the quick mutt dodged Between two parked cars And made his escape. God, I thought, did I just see What I think I saw? At the next red light, I pulled up beside the man And stared hard at him. He knew that’d I seen His murder attempt, But he didn’t care. He smiled and yelled loud Enough for me to hear him Through our closed windows: “Don’t give me that face Unless you’re going to do Something about it. Come on, tough guy, What are you going to do?” I didn’t do anything. I turned right on the green. He turned left against traffic. I don’t know what happened To that man or the dog, But I drove home And wrote this poem. Why do poets think They can change the world? The only life I can save Is my own.
    FROM: War Dances, (2009), NULL, US
• Lou Reed (1)
  • IN: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There’s a little bit of magic in everything and then some loss to even things out.
    FROM: Magic and Loss, (1992), Song, US
• Joy Harjo (1)
  • IN: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.
    FROM: The Real Revolution is Love,, (1990), Poem, US

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• Sherman Alexie (1)
  • IN: War Dances (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I SAW A MAN swerve his car And try to hit a stray dog, But the quick mutt dodged Between two parked cars And made his escape. God, I thought, did I just see What I think I saw? At the next red light, I pulled up beside the man And stared hard at him. He knew that’d I seen His murder attempt, But he didn’t care. He smiled and yelled loud Enough for me to hear him Through our closed windows: “Don’t give me that face Unless you’re going to do Something about it. Come on, tough guy, What are you going to do?” I didn’t do anything. I turned right on the green. He turned left against traffic. I don’t know what happened To that man or the dog, But I drove home And wrote this poem. Why do poets think They can change the world? The only life I can save Is my own.
    FROM: War Dances, (2009), NULL, US
• Sharma Shields (1)
  • IN: The Sasquatch hunter's Almanac (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Because we are human We assign human emotions to Sasquatch.
    FROM: The Sasquatch Poems, (1996), Poem, US