You just go where poetry is, whether it’s in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there’s live poetry or recordings. Joy Harjo Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound. Joy Harjo Read Quote
My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked. Joy Harjo Read Quote
The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit. Joy Harjo Read Quote
I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther. Joy Harjo Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You can’t look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don’t look for it. Don’t look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you. Joy Harjo Read Quote
