Top 40 Quotes by John Trudell

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.

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.

I'm basically a starving artist.