<--tdell4.html--> pORtions of John Trudell's spoken words, from _Stickman_:

Your minds are chained...your mind for a job...trading depth for surfaces.

material, drug, racial, class, sexist, ageist bombs
devastating our natural shelters--the ravishing of our spirit

as though dreams are fires they want to put out...

...shooting up the promise of getting more materials up their arms right and left...selling out humanity...want[ing] more excess, more and more.

Which is lonelier
Being alone together
Or being lonely alone...
[When we] make loneliness a new type of alone.

smiling but never too loudly...

the closing of your doors can only shut you in.

...the invaders happiness seems to have no depth...

Hiding
...I looked around at my human relations, myself
I see so much hiding.
hiding for so much for so many reasons
...Why are we hiding from each other
Why are we hiding from ourselves
...hiding in hidden thoughts
hiding in surface relationships
hiding in rationalizations hidden from truth
hiding in power systems and structures created by us
hiding in confusion, ignorance and deceit
hiding in humanity, while humanity sufferes
...afraid to be what we are or even understand why.
...secrets becoming prisons
instead of experiences
shame instead of learning
...to have to hide
...think I'll stop hiding

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