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You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

~John Trudell

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One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

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It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

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Life is all about the spirit.

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White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

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For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

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For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

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I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

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I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

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All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 15th, 1946

Died: December 8th, 2015

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