Joy Harjo Quotes
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The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building…
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It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that…
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I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
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There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
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I was born with eyes that can never close...
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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…
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My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that…
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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…
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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
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My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.
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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…
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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the ï¬erce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity,…
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Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
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At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,…
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There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When…
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My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
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Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
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Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.
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But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
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