I appreciate all of your expressions of concern, and I appreciate all of your expressions of love. It has been like a fire to my heart. John Trudell concernexpressionfire Change image and share on social
They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else. John Trudell cropgrowland Change image and share on social
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. John Trudell authenticcommunicateillusion Change image and share on social
I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me. John Trudell peopleremember Change image and share on social
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. John Trudell comeelectricheart Change image and share on social
The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity. John Trudell artcontemporarycreate share on social
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 artcultureinstitution Change image and share on social
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. John Trudell burstlinelong share on social
One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth. John Trudell earthmothersell Change image and share on social