John Trudell Quotes
Top 34 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Trudell
John Trudell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.
Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.
We're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings.
I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.
I appreciate all of your expressions of concern, and I appreciate all of your expressions of love. It has been like a fire to my heart.
In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.
I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.
The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
It's like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel.
It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.
For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.