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My house is the red earth ... — Joy Harjo

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

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

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

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you. — Joy Harjo

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

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

I started writing to save my life. — Joy Harjo

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

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

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

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

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

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. — Joy Harjo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. — Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries. — Joy Harjo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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