Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by John Trudell - Page 2

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.

There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.

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.

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.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

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.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

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.

The past is more than a memory.

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.

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

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

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

Class is material consumed.

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

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.