Leslie Marmon Silko





Leslie Marmon Silko

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in The United States
March 05, 1948

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Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 1981.



Average rating: 3.79 · 10,786 ratings · 977 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors
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“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
Leslie Marmon Silko, 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.”
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.”
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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