Quotes about Oral tradition

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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabl — N. Scott Momaday
I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told m — Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow
The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thin — Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar
Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘ — E. Anne Mackay, Mnemosyne, Supplements, Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and Its Influence in the Greek and Roman World
Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’ — Obehi Peter Ewanfoh, AMENDE: The Stream Water
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood — Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears. — Simone Schwarz-Bart
This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is resp — Obehi Peter Ewanfoh, AMENDE: The Stream Water