{"author":"Sherman Alexie","author_id":"Sherman+Alexie","total_quotes":128,"quotes":[{"text":"They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["humorous"],"id":1182,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.We lived and died together.All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["death","grandmothers"],"id":1549,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"They wanted to help me with my pain.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["help-me","pain","wanted"],"id":3809,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["drunk","find-something","help","kids","lost","parents","running-away","sister","to-be"],"id":4461,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"If you kill a black man, the world is silent. You can hear a garage door opening from twenty blocks away. You can pick up a pay phone and only hear the dial tone. Shooting stars sound exactly like the soft laughter of a little girl in Gasworks Park. If you kill a white man, the world erupts with noise: fireworks, sirens, a gavel pounding a desk, the slamming of doors.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["black-lives-matter","racism"],"id":5695,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["choice","love"],"id":8940,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["flight","mankind"],"id":11503,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"If it's fiction, then it better be true.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["writing"],"id":12062,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her if she ever walked by a homeless person and pretended not to notice. Or simply didn't care. In a way, she believed that homeless people were treated as Indians had always been treated. Badly. The homeless were like an Indian tribe, nomadic and powerless, just filled with more than any tribe's share of crazy people and cripples. So, a homeless Indian belonged to two tribes, and was the lowest form of life in the city. The powerful white men of Seattle had created a law that made it illegal to sit on the sidewalk. That ordinance was crazier and much more evil than any homeless person. Sometimes Marie wondered if she worked so hard at anything only because she hated powerful white men. She wondered if she went to college and received good grades just because she was looking for revenge.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["frustration","homeless","native americans","poverty","power","privilege","race","revenge"],"id":13832,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"What if someone picks on me?' I askedThen I'll pick on them'.What if someone picks my nose?' I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too' Rowdy said.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["friendship"],"id":18899,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":128,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}