My Name Is Sherman J. Alexie Jr.,

White Americans Have A Short Memory.

Nervous Means You Want To Play. Scared Means You Don't Want To Play.

Is God A Man Or A Woman? God Could Be An Armadillo. I Have No Idea.

I Learned How To Stop Crying. I Learned How To Hide Inside Of Myself. I Learned How To Be Somebody Else. I Learned How To Be Cold And Numb.

I Know I'll Keep Writing Poems. That's The Constant. I Don't Know About Novels. They're Hard. It Takes So Much Concentrated Effort. When I'm Writing A Novel It's Pretty Much All I Can Do. I Get Bored. It Takes Months. Movies Do The Same Thing. It's All-encompassing. It Feels Like I'm Going To End Up Writing Poems, Short Stories And Screenplays.