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

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

- 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…

- 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

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

- Joy Harjo

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

- Joy Harjo

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

- Joy Harjo