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Top 70 Joy Harjo Quotes (2024 Update)
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Joy Harjo Quote: “I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, when something happened that changed my relationship to the spin of the world. My concept of language, of what was possible with music was changed by this revelatory moment. It changed even the way I look at the sun.”

51. “I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, when something happened that changed my relationship to the spin of the world. My concept of language, of what was possible with music was changed by this revelatory moment. It changed even the way I look at the sun.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Let’s not shame our eyes for seeing. Instead, thank them for their bravery.”

52. “Let’s not shame our eyes for seeing. Instead, thank them for their bravery.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Every collection of poetry makes a force field of energy. When creating you give yourself over to it. In the fiercest moments of imagination the artist may not know where they are going, the how and when of it, and it doesn’t matter. What matters is the process regenerates and meaning shifts at every turn.”

53. “Every collection of poetry makes a force field of energy. When creating you give yourself over to it. In the fiercest moments of imagination the artist may not know where they are going, the how and when of it, and it doesn’t matter. What matters is the process regenerates and meaning shifts at every turn.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “In my community, we are taught that leadership qualities include humility, compassion, a sense of fairness, the ability to listen, preparation and carry-through, a love for the people, and a strong spiritual center that begins with a connection to Earth.”

54. “In my community, we are taught that leadership qualities include humility, compassion, a sense of fairness, the ability to listen, preparation and carry-through, a love for the people, and a strong spiritual center that begins with a connection to Earth.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “To the destroyers, Earth is not a person. They will want more until there is no more to steal.”

55. “To the destroyers, Earth is not a person. They will want more until there is no more to steal.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Emerging from a story, a poem, the Earth, a time in history, or from the body of our mothers is sometimes explosive, chaotic, frightening, yet always awe-inspiring and humbling. We can use the energy to create fresh structures, or we can destroy or be destroyed. The energy can have power over us or empower us, and even what is destructive might clear the debris so that fresh life can emerge from embers or ashes.”

56. “Emerging from a story, a poem, the Earth, a time in history, or from the body of our mothers is sometimes explosive, chaotic, frightening, yet always awe-inspiring and humbling. We can use the energy to create fresh structures, or we can destroy or be destroyed. The energy can have power over us or empower us, and even what is destructive might clear the debris so that fresh life can emerge from embers or ashes.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means.”

57. “Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Until the passage of the Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, it was illegal for Native citizens to practice our cultures. This included the making and sharing of songs and stories. Songs and stories in one culture are poetry and prose in another. They are intrinsic to cultural sovereignty. To write or create as a Native person was essentially illegal.”

58. “Until the passage of the Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, it was illegal for Native citizens to practice our cultures. This included the making and sharing of songs and stories. Songs and stories in one culture are poetry and prose in another. They are intrinsic to cultural sovereignty. To write or create as a Native person was essentially illegal.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “The traditional ways and rituals of all of Earth’s peoples are kept in containers of poetry, song, and story. It is how we know who we are, where we are coming from and who we are becoming.”

59. “The traditional ways and rituals of all of Earth’s peoples are kept in containers of poetry, song, and story. It is how we know who we are, where we are coming from and who we are becoming.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “It was all connected, this poetics of listening, word making, and dancing. There was power to transform, to lighten the heaviness of the burden of being human. That’s how I came to understand the power of poetry and music. It was a tool, but more than a tool. Words and music evoked a state of mind that lifted us up when racial and historical despair threatened.”

60. “It was all connected, this poetics of listening, word making, and dancing. There was power to transform, to lighten the heaviness of the burden of being human. That’s how I came to understand the power of poetry and music. It was a tool, but more than a tool. Words and music evoked a state of mind that lifted us up when racial and historical despair threatened.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. – Joy Harjo.”

61. “When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. – Joy Harjo.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Don’t forget: hold somebody’s hand through the dark.”

62. “Don’t forget: hold somebody’s hand through the dark.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Breath is our entrance into story making – it is a promise. It is a constant ritual that we all share, and it is essential in poetry.“-Joy Harjo.”

63. “Breath is our entrance into story making – it is a promise. It is a constant ritual that we all share, and it is essential in poetry.“-Joy Harjo.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.”

64. “When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind. If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now.”

65. “I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind. If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.”

66. “When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “We must take care to feed the minds, hearts, and spirits of those coming up behind us – to offer songs, poems, and stories that will break open that which is hardened, expose that which is evil-minded or would harm, and remind us how we are constructed to bring forth beauty of thought and beingness.”

67. “We must take care to feed the minds, hearts, and spirits of those coming up behind us – to offer songs, poems, and stories that will break open that which is hardened, expose that which is evil-minded or would harm, and remind us how we are constructed to bring forth beauty of thought and beingness.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “We cannot own anyone else, people, the lands, or resources. We are here to care for each other.”

68. “We cannot own anyone else, people, the lands, or resources. We are here to care for each other.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “That was struggle enough; however, there was another plane of consciousness on which I was fighting every night that I lay down to rest. As I slid into the borderlands between waking and sleeping, negative beings attempted to pull me into their darkness. I learned to escape them by using words to make a ladder to bring me back.”

69. “That was struggle enough; however, there was another plane of consciousness on which I was fighting every night that I lay down to rest. As I slid into the borderlands between waking and sleeping, negative beings attempted to pull me into their darkness. I learned to escape them by using words to make a ladder to bring me back.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.”

70. “The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “Through her eyes I came to see that all is spiritual and we either move about respectfully within it, or we are lost.”

71. “Through her eyes I came to see that all is spiritual and we either move about respectfully within it, or we are lost.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “My children were slick otters of joy in these rough waters of living.”

72. “My children were slick otters of joy in these rough waters of living.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “A family is essentially a field of stories, each intricately connected. Death does not sever the connection; rather, the story expands as it continues unwinding inter-dimensionally.”

73. “A family is essentially a field of stories, each intricately connected. Death does not sever the connection; rather, the story expands as it continues unwinding inter-dimensionally.”

Joy Harjo Quote: “When a despot ineptly sought to turn a country to a totalitarian nightmare, where was poetry? It wasn’t sleeping. It kept the poets up at night. We wrote against despair toward beauty, toward a truth that could imprison us for making liars out of the fools deposited in the seats of power, kept there by puppets who kneeled in piles of promissory notes.”

74. “When a despot ineptly sought to turn a country to a totalitarian nightmare, where was poetry? It wasn’t sleeping. It kept the poets up at night. We wrote against despair toward beauty, toward a truth that could imprison us for making liars out of the fools deposited in the seats of power, kept there by puppets who kneeled in piles of promissory notes.”

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