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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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" And i started wearing glasses when i was three, so i ran around the rez looking like a three-year-old Indian grandpa " (Alexie 3).

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

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" and if you're a fourteen years old like me, and you're still stuttering and lisping, then you become the biggest retard in the world"(Alexie 4).

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" But my hands and feet were huge. My feet were a size eleven in third grade! With my big feet and pencil body" ( Alexie 3 ).

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" First of all, I had seizures. At least two a week. So I was damaging my brain on a regular basis. But the thing is, I was having those seizures because I already had brain damage, so I was reopening wounds each time I seized."

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" I feel important with a pen in my hand. I feel like I might grow up and be someone important"(Alexie 6).

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" Given the chance, my mother would have gone to college" ( Alexie 11).

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"Maybe a famous artist, maybe a rich artist".

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"My  head was so big that little Indian skulls orbited around it".
(page 3)

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" I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited.. But when you draw a picture, everbody can understand it " (Alexie 5)

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My brain damage left me nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other, so my ugly glasses were all lopsided because my eyes were so lopsided (Alexie3).

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"Those rhythm less, talent less, tuneless Indians are most likely to get drunk and beat the sh*t out of the most available loser"

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

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"our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much of the pain as white people" Alexie pg.2

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" But it's safer to stay at home. So I mostly hang out alone in my bedroom and read books and draw cartoons" (5).

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"And if you're fourteen years old, like me, and you're still stuttering and lisping, then you become the biggest retard in the world" (5).

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" Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach " ( Alexie 3).

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"our white dentist  believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did'
(Alexie 2).

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"... being hungry makes food taste better. There is nothing better than a chicken leg when you haven't eaten for (approximately) eight-teen-and-a-half hours" (Alexie 8).

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"After that, your stutter and lisp turn you into a retard" ( alexie 4).

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"And sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner, but I know that, sooner or later, my parents will come bursting through the door with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken". (Alexie 8)

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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. That's all we are" (11).

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"Those rhythmless, talentless, tuneless, Indians who are most likely to get drunk and beat the shit out of available losers. And I am the most available loser" (Alexie 17).

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"i realized how much of my self-worth, my sense of safety was based on rowdy's fists"(Alexie 68).

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"i am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. so whats the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?(Alexie16)".

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"I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad" (Alexie 17)

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" I draw his dreams. And he only talks about his dreams with me. And i only talk about my dreams with him" ( alexie 23).

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"Yep, those bastards were making fun of my brain disorder. Charming, huh?"

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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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"Those rhythmless, talentless, tuneless, Indians who are most likely to get drunk..."(Alexie 17)

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"Nobody would miss me if i was gone"(16).

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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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"...Im afraid of all the Indians who aren't singers and dancers"(17).

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"Most guys, no matter what age, get excited about curves and circles, but not me" (25).

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"After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still view as a potential killer." (Alexie 63)

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"We were poor enough to get free lunch..."(55)

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"come on", I said."who has the most hope?' "white people", my parents said at the same time"(Alexie 45).

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"One bully, Micah, made me beat up myself. Yes, he made me punch myself in the face three times. I am the only Indian in the history of the world who ever lost a fight with himself" (Alexie 62).

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"Did you know that Indians are living proof that n******* f*** buffalo? I felt like Roger had kicked me in the face. That was the most racist thing I'd ever heard in my life," (Alexie 64).

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"Why did I touch his shoulder? I don't know. I was stupid." (pg.52)

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"Indians don"t deserve sh*t"(56)

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"I want to go to Reardan' I said" (45)

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"You threw that book at my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up" (43)

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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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"id lost most every fight id been in.i was afraid those monsters where going to kill me."(pg 65)

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"Everybody, all of the students and the teacher, stopped to stare at me"(58).

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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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"So I punched Roger in the face. He wasn't laughing when he landed on his ass. And he wasn't laughing when his nose bled like red fireworks. I struck some fake karate pose because i figured Roger's gang was going to attack me for bloodying their leader. But they just stared at me." (pg.65)

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"You're going to find more hope the farther you walk away from this sad,sad,sad reservation" (43)

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"No, no, I don't think I'm better than anybody. I think I'm worse than everyone else." (52)

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" No, no, i don't think i'm better than anybody. I think i'm worse than everybody else. (Alexie 52)"

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"So what was i doing at racist Reardan, where more than half of every graduating class went to college? Nobody in my family had ever gone near a college", (Alexie 56).

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"my sister is running away to get lost, but i am running away because i want to find something"(Alexie 46).

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" He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners" (Alexie 55).

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"We were poor enough to get free lunch, but I didn't want to be the only Indian and a sad sack who needed charity" (55)

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"no, no i don't think i'm better than anybody. i think i'm worse than everybody else."

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'' that old old old decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb. My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud. ( Alexie 31 )

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

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" I knew that I'd be one of those guys who always fell in love with the unreachable,ungettable and uninterested. (Alexie 74)

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Respect? No way!
(pg.68)

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" i was so ashamed. i might have impressed the king, but the queen still hated me. i guess my grandmother didn't know everything. (alexie 73)."

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"Mostly they just wanted to remind me that i was a traitor"(79).

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"Of course after school I would be trick-or-treating on the rez, so I wouldn't collect as much spare change as Penelope would in Reardan." (Alexie 78)

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" i am the only Indian in the history of the world who ever lost a fight with himself." (Alexie 63)

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"There's not difference between my good close and bad clothes, so I pretty much look half homeless anyway"
(pg.77)

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"But i just felt stupid and naive after those guys took off"(79).

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"I was a poor kid raising money for other poor people."(79)

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"There's not much difference between my good and bad clothes anyway..." (77)

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"I'm wearing this to protest the treatment of homeless Native Americans of America," (Alexie 67).  

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"I'm wearing this to protest the treatment of homeless Native Americans of America," (Alexie 67).  

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Molly Geary.

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

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"but i just felt stupid and native after those guys took off" (pg. 79)

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"Well let's get something straight. All of those pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty white girls ignored me. But that was okay. Indian girls ignored me, too, so I was used to it." (Alexie 63)

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"I was a poor kid raising money for other poor people"(79).

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'' i hurt a lot of indian kids when i was a young teacher. '' might have broken a few bones''. (35)

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"I'd been thinking about her breasts and she'd been thinking about my whole life,I was the shallow one."pge(127)

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"I only had five dollars, not nearly enough to pay for anything... " (119)

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"So that made me, well, it made me nothing Zero. Zilch. Nada"(82).

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"I woke up on the reservation as an Indian, and somewhere on the road to Reardan, I became something less than Indian." (Alexie 83)

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"If things didn't get better soon, i was going to turn into one giant walking talking zit"(83).

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"I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half White in the other."(Alexie 118)

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"How to pretend you're not poor," (Alexie 120).

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"And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that... We were supposed to be happy with out limitations" (Alexie 112).

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"Are you poor?" i couldnt lie to her anymore, "yes," i said. " Im poor."
(Alexie 127)

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'' i went dressed as a homeless dude. it was pretty easy costume for me.'' ( 77)

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"Well, life is constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community," (Alexie 132).

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"Those white kids did not talk to me. They barely looked at me. Well, Roger would nod his head at me, he didn't socialize with me or anything" (Alexie 83)

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"Roger was the one who guessed you were poor"-Penelope (127)

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"Gordy was white, but anybody can start acting like an Indian if he hangs around us long enough"(Alexie131).

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"Those guys maqde indians feel like insects pinned to a display board " (alexie 163 )

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"I'm not some ugly, mutated beast. But i am an absolute stranger at school." Alexie 109

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"My dad was suppose to pick me up but he had no gas money" (Alexie 86)

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" you have to dream big to get big"
(136}.

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"But i didn't know if the coach liked Indians or not"(125).

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" plenty of the old white still give me the stink eye just for being Indian " ( Alexie 154 ).

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"Some of the towns on the rez are filled with white people... but the people who live in those white towns don't always like indians that much." Page 100

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''now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity '' (155)

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"After Rowdy knocked me out, both of our teams got into a series of shoving matches and push fights"(Alexie 146).

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"she was probably dating me ONLY because i was an Indian boy"(alexie 110)"

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''despite the situation. his wife was was dying from cancer.(pg.163)