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, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you. - Joy Harjo
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
- Joy Harjo
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, family trauma,… - Joy Harjo
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, family trauma,…
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. - Joy Harjo
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolvin… - Joy Harjo
I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolvin…
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
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
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
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.
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies - Joy Harjo
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. - Joy Harjo
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. - Joy Harjo
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
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