It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe.

Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.