Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
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 we have together.
Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.
the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!
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 that kind of time is real.
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 then they had to pay her to tell them.
Anybody can act violently--there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.