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.

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

Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.

The past is more than a memory.

When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.