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"...I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation" (Alexie 7).

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" We reservation Indians don't get to realize out dreams. We don't get those chances. Or choices. We're just poor. That's all we are." (Alexie 13)

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"And then you start believing that your stupid and ugly because you're Indian"
(Alexie 13)

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"We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to."

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"it sucks to be poor and everyone around you believes you deserve to be poor"

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" I feel like I might be somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich artist." (Alexie 6)

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" and then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. " pg. 13

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" and you start believing that you are stupid and ugly because youre indian"

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"Poverty doesn't give you strength or tech you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor." (Alexie 13

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"Sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner,"(Alexie 8

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"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor" (Alexie 13)

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"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel like you deserve to be poor"

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" No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor." pg. 13

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"My head was so big that little Indians skulls orbited around it" (Alexie 3)

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"My head was so big that little Indians skulls orbited around it" (Alexie 3)

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Jaylin

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" poverty= empty refrigerator+ empty stomach" (page 8)

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Alec                                                           and sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the other thing we have for dinner.

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Alec                                                           and sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the other thing we have for dinner.

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"I was most especially excited about my first geometry class. " (Alexie 24)

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its sucks to be poor

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"Do you know what happens to us retards on the rez? We get beat up. At least once a month.'' (Alexie 4)

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'' i cant blame my family for our poverty because my mother & father are the twins suns around which i orbit . "

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'' i cant blame my family for our poverty because my mother & father are the twins suns around which i orbit . "

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Mi'khai

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"But we reservation Indians don't get to realize our dreams." (Alexie 13)

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Empty refrigerator = empty stomach

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"So obviously I was a little goofy on the outside, but it was the inside stuff that was worse" (Alexie 3)

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"she's a human tape recorder really my mom can read the newspaper in fifteen minutes and tell me baseball scores " " given the chance ,my father would have been a musician."

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"Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach (Alexie 8)

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"Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach (Alexie 8)

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Jaylin

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it sucks to be poor

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"First of all, I ended up having forty-two teeth. The typical human has thirty - two, right? But I had forty- two. Ten more than usual. Ten more than human. Ten teeth past human." (Alexie 2)

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"Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day." (Alexie 4)

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"We're just poor, that's all we are"
(Alexie 13)

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" Yep i belong to the Black-Eye-Of-the-Month Club." pg. 4

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"I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich artist." (Alexie 6

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" so i ran around rez looking like a three-year-old Indian grandpa" pg.3

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"But weirdo me, I was born I was born with too much grease inside my skull..." (Alexie 1)

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"Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day." (Alexie 4)

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"so i ran around rez looking like a three-year-old Indian grandpa." (Alexie 3)

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"So i draw because i feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation" pg.6

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"everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day."

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"so I ran around the res looking like a three-year-old grandpa"

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it sucks to be poor

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"Those rhythmless, talentless, tuneless, Indians are most likely going to get drunk and beat the shit out of any available losers.

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"So i draw to keep him happy, to give him other worlds to live inside."

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"But we reservation Indians don't get to realize our dreams. We don't get those chances. Or choices. We're just poor" (Alexie 13)

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"and I am always the most available loser".

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"Don't get drunk you'll just get ugly."
But im already ugly .

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"I'm afraid of all the Indians who aren't dancers and singers. Those rhythm less, talent less, tuneless, Indians are most likely going to get drunk and beat the shit out any available losers." (Alexie 17)

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" it sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel like you deserve to be poor "

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"After Oscar died, I was so depressed that I thought about crawling into a hole and disappearing forever" (Alexie 15)

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"it sucks to be poor...feel you somehow deserve to be poor"

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" I felt like two different people inside of one body. No, I felt  like a magician slicing myself in half , Junior living on the north side of the Spokeane river and Arnold living on the south." (page: 61)

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"Poverty = empty refrigerator+ empty stomach"

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" I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero." pg.16

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"You can't hide in your house forever. You'll turn into some kind of troll or something
."

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"Yep, those bastards were making fun of my brain disorder." (Alexie 21)

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"i draw to keep me happy"

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"but he was wrong. And he knew he was wrong. He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners " (page :55)

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"You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly "

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" poverty only teaches you to be poor "

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"And then you start believing that your stupid and ugly because you're indian"

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"And then you start believing that your stupid and ugly because you're indian"

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" It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor"
(page 13)

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"so i draw to keep him happy,to give him other worlds to live inside."

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"" you always thought your were better than me " he yelled. " no ,no I don't think I'm better then anybody. I think I'm worse than everybody else ."( page: 52

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"if you stay on this rez..they're going to kill you. Im going to kill you."

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they are treated like they are different

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and sure sometimes my family misses a meal or two

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"so what was i doing in racist reardan, where more than half of every graduating class went to college

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"My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from." (Alexie 31)

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"I'm already ugly" page 20

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"That old, old, old, decrepit geometry book" (Alexie 31)

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he has always wanted to move off the rez

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those bastards were makeing infrount of my brain disorder

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i am just a poor ass living with my poor ass family in this poor ass school. 

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i am just a poor ass living with my poor ass family in this poor ass school. 

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"She wanted to write romance novels." (Alexie 37)

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"And then you start believing that you are stupid and ugly because you're Indian"

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''But it was the inside stuff that was worse'' (Alexie 3

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He always wanted to leave the reservation (page 51)

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'and then you start believing that you are stupit ugly

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'and then you start believing that you are stupit ugly

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page 13
Nakaya

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"i made it through even without showing my poverty"(page:123)

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im already ugly

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"I was young and dumb" Bernard  ( Mr. P)

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"I was young and dumb" Bernard  ( Mr. P)

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"You fought off those seizures, you fought off all the drunks and drug addicts. You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go some where Sere other people have hope." (Alexie 36)

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"I hit you because i'm stupid"

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"Indians don't deserve shit" pg.56

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"after they all found out I was a poor ass Indian, I knew they would be a couple. ( Alexie: 124)

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"First of all, I ended up having forty-two teeth. The typical human has thirty - two, right? But I had forty- two. Ten more than usual. Ten more than human. Ten teeth past human."

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"At school today, I went dressed as a homeless dude. It was a pretty easy costume for me.There's not much difference between my good and bad clothes, so I pretty much look half homeless anyway. (Alexie 77)

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"I felt like somebody had shoved me into a rocket ship and blasted me to a new planet. I was a freaky alien and there was absolutely no way to get home." (Alexie 66)

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mi'khai roary

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" No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor."

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"There's not much difference between my good and bad clothes, so i pretty much look half-homeless  anyways."
(Alexie 77)