"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."

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

Leslie Marmon Silko

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“Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.”
“Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.”

Source : "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.
“There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.”
“What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it. That either I hadn't done enough sex work by their standards, or I hadn't done the right kind in order to have the right to speak about it. I couldn't understand them. I'm not speaking for you. I'm not speaking "for" anyone. I'm trying to put together this picture of the different forces that are producing a result in the lives of sex workers. You can't contest the fact that tons of people are going to jail and experiencing violence.”
“There's not much radio in the UK, really. In America, you're in a car, factory, wherever, and you turn the dial on the radio, and can hear about a million stations. Hardly any in England.”
“I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.”
“Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.”

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