The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Ha! Yeah, it’s good to laugh. It’s good to tease. We’re Indians. So we know that teasing can be an act of love.

Yeah, it’s good to laugh at funerals. It’s good to be happy and sad at the same time.

Do you remember how it felt to be so Indian and so poor and so powerless?

And it felt like you would lose to white people? That you’d always lose to white people?

and from me

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