I Grew Up In A Storytelling Culture,

I Look More Indian When I'm Serious.

If You Teach Kids How To Tell Stories, They Have A Better Chance At Everything.

I Don't Think The Revisionist Historians Are Accurate. I Think Their Agendas Are Clouded By Selfishness And Anger And Rage.

In The Middle Of The Night, When You're Ambiguously Ethnic, Like Me, When You're Brown, Beige, Mauve, Siena, One Of Those Lighter Browns In The Crayola Box. You Have To Be Careful Of The Cops And Robbers, Because Nobody's Quite Sure What You Are, But Everybody Has Assumptions.

My Name Is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., And I Am An Insomniac.