All Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
- Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and… All
- Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. Cant
- Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and… Accounts
- What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things? Beings
- The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas. Americas
- Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because… All
- I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much… Certain
- To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous… Able
- I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all… All
- Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him. Blossom
- When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever… Aware
- But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story… Gone
- The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and… Anyone
- He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as… All
- Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon,… All
- Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct. Class
- the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything! Flesh
- For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness… Bed
- The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness… Art
- Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time. Alive