Latest John Trudell Quotes from Interviews

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

  John Trudell

  Order, People, Giving

  "Still confronting: Interview with John Trudell - Theory of the planted operative". Interview with Jose Barreiro, newsmaven.io. September 13, 2006.

• There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.

  John Trudell

  People, Movement, Angry

  "Still confronting: Interview with John Trudell - Theory of the planted operative". Interview with Jose Barreiro, newsmaven.io. September 13, 2006.

• 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.

  John Trudell

  Feelings, Meat, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

  John Trudell

  Reality, Madness, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  John Trudell

  Believe, Thinking, Gone

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

  John Trudell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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.

  John Trudell

  Wall, Block, Stress

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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.

  John Trudell

  Believe, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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.

  John Trudell

  Reality, Way, Given

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  John Trudell

  Creative, Use, Creative Intelligence

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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.

  John Trudell

  Years, People, Worry

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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.

  John Trudell

  Writing, People, Observation

  Source: www.raintaxi.com