American - Author | February 15, 1946 - December 8, 2015
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
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I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
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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.
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One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.
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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.
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All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
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I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
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When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.
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Life is all about the spirit.
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White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.
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They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.
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You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.
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