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Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Joy Harjo
Spiritual, Hands, Language

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”

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

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

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

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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