Leslie Marmon Silko Citas

• La única forma de conseguir el cambio no es a través de los tribunales o -el cielo no lo quiera- de los políticos, sino a través de un cambio de conciencia humana y a través de un cambio de corazón. Sólo a través de las artes -música, poesía, danza, pintura, escritura- "podemos realmente llegar los unos a los otros".

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Art, Writing, Heaven

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• Te diré algo sobre las historias. . . No son sólo entretenimiento. No te engañes. Son todo lo que tenemos para luchar contra la enfermedad y la muerte.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• 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.

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  Long, Together, Gone

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Animal, Rivers, Tree

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• 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.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Gone, Remember, Forget You

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1986). “The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright”, Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press

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• I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Memories, Writing, Order

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

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Crece

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• 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.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  White, Differences, Different

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

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Historias, Ifs

  Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich (1993). “Yellow Woman”, p.3, Rutgers University Press

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

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Flower, Land, Long

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• 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.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Personas, Historias, Mundo

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Memories, Imagination, Sometimes

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• Los límites de tiempo son ficticios. Perder el sentido del tiempo es el camino hacia la realidad. Usamos relojes y calendarios por comodidad, no porque ese tipo de tiempo sea real.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Real, Limits, Use

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• The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Creer, Gobierno, Gente

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• 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.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Teacher, Distance, Believe

  "Ceremony". Book by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977.

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• relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Dust, People, Care

  Leslie Marmon Silko, Ellen L. Arnold (2000). “Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko”, p.27, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Enemy, Able, Persons

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• Escribir no puede cambiar el mundo de la noche a la mañana, pero escribir puede tener un efecto enorme con el tiempo, a largo plazo.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Writing, Long, May

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• ¿Qué nos pasa a los seres humanos que no podemos desprendernos de las cosas perdidas?

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Letting Go, Lost Things, Can't Let Go

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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Sweet, Night, Wings

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• 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.

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  Important, Here And There, Different

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• The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  War, Indian

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• Poder inventar historias ha sido para mí un gran regalo de mis antepasados y de los cuentacuentos que eran tan numerosos en Laguna Pueblo cuando yo crecía. Aprendí a leer en cuanto pude porque quería historias sin tener que depender de los adultos para que me las contaran o leyeran.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Growing Up, Adults, Stories

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• 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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  Letting Go, Hands, Giving

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• el mundo material y la carne son sólo temporales - no hay pecados de la carne, ¡el espíritu lo es todo!

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  World, Flesh, Spirit

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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