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“… I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me. I feel important with a pen in my hand. I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich…
… my grandmother had never drunk alcohol in her life. Not one drop. That’s the rarest kind of Indian in the world. I know only, like, five Indians in our whole tribe who have never drunk alcohol. And my grandmother was one of them. …
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.” - Sherman Alexie
If you let people into your life a little, they can be pretty damned amazing.
"If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing." - Arnold Spirit Jr.
"Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community."
"We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child."
"I can do it," I said to Coach, to my teammates, to the world. "You can do it," Coach said. "I can do it."...'Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? [...] How amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the…
pg. 13 "Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverence. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor."pg. 97 "The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know."pg. 107 "There are…
Ólive
When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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"Life is never easy"
When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
