My Name Is Sherman J. Alexie Jr.,

If You Care About Something Enough, It’s Going To Make You Cry. But You Have To Use It. Use Your Tears. Use Your Pain. Use Your Fear. Get Mad. Arnold, Get Mad.

Sometimes It's Called Passing Out And Sometimes It's Just Pretending To Be Asleep

I Am Extremely Conscious Of My Tribalism. And When You Talk About Tribalism, You Talk About Living In A Black And White World. I Mean, Native American Tribalism Sovereignty, Even The Political Fight For Sovereignty And Cultural Sovereignty Is A Very Us Versus Them. And I Think A Lot Of People In This Country, Especially European Americans And Those Descended From Europeans Don't See Themselves As Tribal.

We Can All Learn From Every Text. Reading The Work That Disgusts You Can Only Strengthen Your Core Beliefs. I Could Teach A Semester-long Course Based Only On Reading The Local Telephone Book. All Stories Can Be Taught In Valuable Ways.

There Are All Kinds Of Addicts, I Guess. We All Have Pain. And We All Look For Ways To Make The Pain Go Away. (107)