Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

- Leslie Marmon Silko

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

- Leslie Marmon Silko

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

- Leslie Marmon Silko

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 yo…

- Leslie Marmon Silko

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a …

- Leslie Marmon Silko

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

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of oth…

- Leslie Marmon Silko

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

- Leslie Marmon Silko

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

- Leslie Marmon Silko