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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: "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: "A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part."

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.



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: "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 that stops we all die."

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 that stops we all die.



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: "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: "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: "There is no poetry where there are no mistakes."

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.



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: "If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath"

If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath



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: "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: "My house is the red earth . . . ."

My house is the red earth . . . .



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 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: "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 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: "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: "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 who stand watching her, watching themselves."

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 who stand watching her, watching themselves.



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

I was born with eyes that can never close.



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: "I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul."

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.



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 walk in and out of several worlds every day."

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.



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.