Joy Harjo Quotes

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

Joy Harjo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 9, 1951

Topics

I AmPeopleLookingDreamerAnswers

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

Jim Lovell

MoonViewBackGoBuildComfortable

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

Joe Flaherty

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But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

Jena Malone

SomeoneYouGoMatterAlwaysGoing

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

Meghan Markle

LoveInterestingAnythingBigger

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

MeaningPhilosophyYouKnowHidden

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Matt Sharp

InfluenceBelieveSurroundingsYour

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

John Ralston Saul

YouPenKnowDonePresidentSee

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Steve Wynn

TruthMoneyGovernmentToo MuchKind

Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album.

Juicy J

SometimesWantBuyThingsArtists

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

Jonathan Zittrain

FreedomConstitutionFlameAppreciate

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

Chris Hardwick

GoodTimePeopleEnoughYouLucky

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Annie Dillard

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