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Joy Harjo quotes: My house is the red earth ...

My house is the red earth ...

Joy Harjo quotes: I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn't have at dusk.

I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn't have at dusk.

Joy Harjo quotes: I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

Joy Harjo quotes: I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

Joy Harjo quotes: Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Joy Harjo quotes: You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Joy Harjo quotes: Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Joy Harjo quotes: I started writing to save my life.

I started writing to save my life.

Joy Harjo quotes: My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

Joy Harjo quotes: I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

Joy Harjo quotes: In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

Joy Harjo quotes: The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.

The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.

Joy Harjo quotes: The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

Joy Harjo quotes: There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Joy Harjo quotes: It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

Joy Harjo quotes: I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself

I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself

Joy Harjo quotes: I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

Joy Harjo quotes: If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Joy Harjo quotes: I was born with eyes that can never close...

I was born with eyes that can never close...

Joy Harjo quotes: Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Joy Harjo quotes: All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

Joy Harjo quotes: I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

Joy Harjo quotes: True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

Joy Harjo quotes: Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

Joy Harjo quotes: Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts

Joy Harjo quotes: Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

Joy Harjo quotes: I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Joy Harjo quotes: Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Joy Harjo quotes: Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground ... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground ... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Joy Harjo quotes: My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

Joy Harjo quotes: Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

Joy Harjo quotes: I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

Joy Harjo quotes: We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

Joy Harjo quotes: But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Joy Harjo quotes: My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

Joy Harjo quotes: I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

Joy Harjo quotes: She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.