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.

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing.

We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.

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

Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.