I know I walk in and out of several worlds every day. - Joy Harjo

Because who would believe
the fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival
those who were never meant
to survive?

I don't see time as linear. I don't see things as beginning and ending. A lot of people have a hard time understanding native people and native patience-they wonder why we aren't out marching to accomplish something. There is no question that we have had an incredible history, but I think to understand Indian people and the native mind you have to understand that we experience the world very differently. For us, there is not just this world, there's also a layering of others. Time is not divided by minutes and hours, and of everything has presence and meaning within this landscape of timelessness.

I always play or perform music with my poetry. When poetry came into the world, it did not arrive by itself, but it came with music and dance.