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Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. — John Trudell

I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me. — John Trudell

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else. — John Trudell

They're called poems but in reality they're lines given to me to hang on to — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere. — John Trudell

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters. — John Trudell

Class is material consumed. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place. — John Trudell

Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think. — John Trudell

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky. — John Trudell

I'm basically a starving artist. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

Life is all about the spirit. — John Trudell

The past is more than a memory. — John Trudell

It's like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit. — John Trudell

Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm. — John Trudell

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence. — John Trudell

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel. — John Trudell

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

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. — John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music. — John Trudell

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. — John Trudell

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry. — John Trudell

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard. — John Trudell