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• I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.

  Joy Harjo

  Cousin, Attitude, Thinking

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

  Joy Harjo

  Differences, Trying, And Love

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• My house is the red earth . . . .

  Joy Harjo

  House, Earth, Red

  Joy Harjo, Simon J. Ortiz (2003). “The Pueblo Imagination: Landscape and Memory in the Photography of Lee Marmon”

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• I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

  Joy Harjo

  Journey, Light, Roots

  Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press

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• In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

  Joy Harjo

  Horse, Sky, Rainbow

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• The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

  Joy Harjo

  Suicidal, Chicago, East

  Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli (1996). “The spiral of memory: interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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