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Leslie Marmon Silko is an American writer known for her unique Native American background and literary style. Her works delve into themes such as race, cultural identity, and feminism.

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Famous Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

“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 at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”

Has Beens Stories Able Wanted Growing Up Growing Depends Adults Ancestor Storyteller Great Gifts

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“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.”

People World Stories Ancient Bundles

Book:Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Source: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

“The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.”

Littles Important Different Stories Important Things Versions Here And There

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“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.”

Stories Death Fighting Reading Literature Health Illness Entertainment Storytelling Novelists Reading Books Fooled Mexican American Illness And Death

Book:Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

“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.”

Long Stories Together Remember Gone

Book:Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

“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 if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.”

Ifs Giving Made Stories Hands Letting Go Mouths Stones Substance Knees Blanket Extending Pebbles

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“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, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.”

Ifs Way Believe Kind Persons Long Stories Wanted School Gone Teacher Taught Moon Long Time Distance Indian Nonsense Barriers

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.”

Ifs Stories

Book:Yellow Woman

Source: Yellow Woman

About the Author

Born: March 5, 1948
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 41

Books & Sources

CeremonyRelated source material

Gardens in the DunesRelated source material

Gardens in the Dunes: A NovelRelated source material

The Delicacy and Strength of LaceRelated source material

Yellow WomanRelated source material

Conversations with Leslie Marmon SilkoRelated source material

The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James WrightRelated source material

The Turquoise Ledge: A MemoirRelated source material

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the SpiritRelated source material

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