John Trudell
John Trudell
John Trudellwas a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
doors entertainment knocking media rest saying whatever
Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.
bull falling sitting
Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.
appreciate love
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.
people
I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.
became boom center consider drum electric electronic
I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.
book writing long
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.
creative use creative-intelligence
We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.
song reality essence
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.
reality way given
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.
years worry people
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.
class materials consumed
Class is material consumed.
writing people observation
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.
reality lines given
They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to
thinking entering determined
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.