Really, all poetry is a prayer, you have to go to the cente… - Joy Harjo

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Really, all poetry is a prayer, you have to go to the center place, inside you, to write poetry. (1994

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Joy Harjo (May 9, 1951) is a poet, musician, author and the first Native American United States Poet Laureate.

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Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth. Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

We will always become those we have ever feared or condemned

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