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Leslie Marmon Silko is an American writer. A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.

Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. March 1948
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Famous Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

“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.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

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

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

“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 truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”

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“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.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

“You damn your own soul better than I ever could.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

“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 was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Ceremony (1977)

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