Renee Ellmers Quotes

• I don’t think there’s a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don’t think of it as being class literature.

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• There isn’t a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don’t know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

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• The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a – you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

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• You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don’t realize it.

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• What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

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• I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

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• There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn’t been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

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• You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

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• In the middle of the night, when you’re ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you’re brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody’s quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we’d lie in the same bed, and I’d read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

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• My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

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• My career means, if you’re a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there’s one Indian in your rearview mirror.

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• My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me – not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

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• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn’t want to be another disappointing Indian.

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• My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

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• White Americans have a short memory.

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• I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

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• The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn’t like me when I was seven years old don’t like my books.

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• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody’s writing about them. They’re really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

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• I believe in Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

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Renee Ellmers (22)

Birth:	9th February, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Nurse

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Renee Jacisin Ellmers is the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district. She is a member of the Republican Party. Ellmers defeated seven-term Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge in 2010 by 1,489 votes, confirmed after a recount.

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