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.
Leslie Marmon SilkoTag: imagination inspirational spiritual
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
Leslie Marmon Silkothe material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!
Leslie Marmon SilkoFor 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.
Leslie Marmon SilkoThe 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 change of heart. Only through the arts — music, poetry, dance, painting, writing — "can we really reach each other,
Leslie Marmon SilkoBeing alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
Leslie Marmon SilkoThen 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.
Tag: fear
Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (...) So they moved with the snow, became part of the snowstorm which drifted up against the trees and fences. And when they died, frozen solid against a fence, with the snow drifted around their heads? "Ah, Tayo," Josiah said, "the wind convinced them they were the ice.
Leslie Marmon SilkoBecause 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 SilkoHe had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.
Leslie Marmon SilkoTag: eyes move skullduggery-pleasant sinews
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