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
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. John Trudell activistactorpoet Change image and share on social
One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth. John Trudell earthmothersell Change image and share on social
I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over. John Trudell expandfindhokey Change image and share on social
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. John Trudell humanlosemake Change image and share on social
I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere. John Trudell americanhemisphereindian 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
For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive. John Trudell alivedealeventually share on social
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. John Trudell artcultureearly share on social
