Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger. John Trudell More Quotes by John Trudell More Quotes From John Trudell The past is more than a memory. John Trudell memoriespast I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country. John Trudell countrycommitmentthinking There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements. John Trudell angrymovementpeople 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 enteringdeterminedthinking As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness. John Trudell madnesshumansreality There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect. John Trudell givingorderpeople Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class. John Trudell governmentclasslooks They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to John Trudell givenlinesreality I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory. John Trudell worrypeopleyears A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large. John Trudell observationwritingpeople Class is material consumed. John Trudell consumedmaterialsclass We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence. John Trudell creative-intelligencecreativeuse 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 givenrealityway In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel. John Trudell essencesongreality I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything. Or these lines will come into my head and I'll write 'em down in a little book, just little sets of lines, but I won't try to make stories or poems out of them. I'm doing a lot of that now, just the lines. John Trudell writinglongbook What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought. John Trudell viewthoughtenergylife I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. John Trudell i-amunderstandinglosingworld Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky. John Trudell soldierssittingdreamsky Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. John Trudell ownpoetryperceptionfeelings 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 truthculturepeopleart
