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This book is dedicated to the storytellers
as far back as memory goes and to the telling
which continues and through which they all live
and we with them.

— Leslie Marmon Silko Storyteller (1981)

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And in the belly of this story
the rituals and the ceremony
are still growing.

"Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words." (p222)

Storyteller (1981)

...as I tell the story
it will begin to happen...

Ceremony (1977)

I think what writers, storytellers, and poets have to say necessarily goes beyond such trivial boundaries as origin.

collected in Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (1976)

It's generally double-edged. It seems with humor, there's always something beyond just the laughing that when you're laughing, you have to think beyond to greater considerations.

collected in Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (1976)

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