I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was – and I was never too calm to begin with. John Trudell Read Quote
I don’t want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me. John Trudell Read Quote
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. John Trudell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in ’86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio. John Trudell Read Quote
Every song I’ve ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music. John Trudell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n’ roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers. John Trudell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
