Given Quote by John Trudell Download Open image “They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to” — John Trudell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Given Inspirational Lines Poetry Reality
I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“We write a line we're especially proud of, and weeks later find it staring -no glaring - back at us from some stanza in… — Robin Behn Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
The history of the Indians begins with the arrival of the Europeans. The history of the People begins with the beginning of the history… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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;… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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,… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter what they ever do to us, we must always act for the love of our people and the earth. We must not… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The very fact of calling us Indians creates a new identity for us, an identity that began with their arrival. Changing identity, creating a… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
