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In a novel that illuminates the arduous task of finding one's identity after one dominant culture subsumes another, Silko masterfully uses traditional motifs to heal her protagonist Tayo, a Laguna Pueblo Native American returned from WWII, physically
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“We bring in the coal that dyes our hands black not like ash
but like the thing that makes a black sheep black.”
― Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
but like the thing that makes a black sheep black.”
― Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
“Way I sees it is dis. If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ’splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.”
― James
― James
“If you’re sane enough to know that you’re crazy then you’re not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“There is no God, child. There’s religion but there’s no God of theirs. Their religion tells that we will get our reward in the end. However, it apparently doesn’t say anything about their punishment. But when we’re around them, we believe in God. Oh, Lawdy Lawd, we’s be believin’. Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient.”
― James
― James
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― James
― James
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