American - Poet | May 9, 1951 -
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
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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.
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The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.
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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.
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I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.
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