Quotes by Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko

Anybody can act violently – there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Able

Enemy

Persons

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

Flower

Land

Long

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.

Differences

Different

White

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

Alive

Long

Long Time

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.

Gone

Long

Together

But sometimes what we call ‘memory’ and what we call ‘imagination’ are not so easily distinguished.

Imagination

Memories

Sometimes

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.

Believe

Distance

Teacher

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 of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke… They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

Doctors

Wall

White

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

Class

Graduates

Years

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.

Giving

Hands

Letting Go

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Adults

Alive

Animal

Art

Believe

Book

Can't Let Go

Care

Class

Courses

Dawn

Death

Differences

Different

Distance

Doctors

Doe

Dreamer

Dust

Enemy

Felt

Flesh

Flower

Forget You

Giving

Gone

Government

Graduates

Growing Up

Grows

Hands

Health

Heaven

Here And There

Hills

Ifs

Imagination

Important

Indian

Land

Letting Go

Limits

Long

Long Time

Lost Things

May

Memories

Night

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Quotes by Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko

Anybody can act violently – there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

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.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

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.

But sometimes what we call ‘memory’ and what we call ‘imagination’ are not so easily distinguished.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

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.

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