John Trudell
John Trudell
John Trudellwas a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
ignorance reality rights
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.
dont-trust-anyone cant-trust-anyone dont-trust
Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.
wall block stress
When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.
stronger happened
Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.
heart heaven mind
The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.
feelings meat humans
We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.
white america people
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [. . .] and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people
rain simple sky
Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.
memories past
The past is more than a memory.
essence predator energy
It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.
class government looks
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.
class materials consumed
Class is material consumed.
creative use creative-intelligence
We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.
years worry people
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.