Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko

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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

Sadie Jones
- Time
- Moving
- Waiting
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Salman Rushdie
- Life
- Time
- World
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- World
- Race
- Autobiography
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

Gary Lucas
- Time
- Music
- Listening
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

Fareed Zakaria
- Long
- America
- Feeling
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Time
- Fall
- Failure