We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.
John TrudellEvery human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
John TrudellThe great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.
John TrudellThe 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.
John Trudell