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Joy Harjo

It took me 14 years to write ‘Crazy Brave’ because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don’t really want to write about myself. But it’s about writing about memory.

– Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

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

– Joy Harjo

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

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

– Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

I hear from my Inuit and Yupik relatives up north that everything has changed. It’s so hot; there is not enough winter. Animals are confused. Ice is melting.

– Joy Harjo

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

Joy Harjo

I started writing to save my life.

– Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

I don’t like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We’re human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.

– Joy Harjo

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

Joy Harjo

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I’m a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I’m looking for answers of some sort or the other.

– Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

I’ve always loved the desert. I’ve spent most of my life in the Southwest. It’s certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

– Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn’t understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

– Joy Harjo

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