Just finished reading Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven. Read the review here. Below are some notable quotes that stood out for me.
Has NO race been spared in the countless acts of eugenics in America? Jeez.
"While my aunt held her baby close to her chest, the doctor tied her tubes, with the permission slip my aunt signed because the hospital administrator lied and said it proved her Indian status for the BIA" (81).
Has NO race been spared in the countless acts of eugenics in America? Jeez.
"What was God but this planet's maid?" (133)A severely underpaid one at that.
"There is more than one way to starve" (177).Truly powerful statement, no?
"I didn't really fit the profile of the country..." (183).Does anyone? Why is there even a profile in place when so many do not fit into it, yet belong (or should anyway) just the same?
"Most of all, I had to find out what it meant to be Indian, and there ain't no self-help manuals for that last one" (211).If only, if only self-help guides existed, then we could cure Adolescence forever.
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