“To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.” Quote by Taylor Dane
“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.” IfsShouldBelieveLongHas BeensMadeSelfBodyWould BeNationsEasyResultsRolesAliveRevolutionLong TimeUnderstoodShould HaveOrganizationIntelligentFundamentalsUniversityExpectedCorporateRebelEvidentShould Have BeenAlterations Author:Muriel Beadle
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.” HumansHeartLittlesSelfPoliticalValuesGoalInterestGroupsStudentsAdultsAnd LoveInstitutionsUniversityNeighborHatedHypocrisyProtestBureaucracySelf InterestMaterialisticMilitantRigidityHuman ValuesPolitical InstitutionsUniversity StudentsImpersonality Author:Muriel Beadle
“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.” ForgetStudentsCollegeAppearanceSurfaceConventionalConservatismMisleadCollege StudentsPresbyteriansDeacons Author:Muriel Beadle
“I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.” PeopleIfsWantI CanStoriesFilmIndependentAddStudiosInstanceIndependent Film Author:John Hawkes
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.” NeedsChildrenStoriesHomePoliticalReadingNationsBlackTeacherRevolutionMembersSittingDoctorsScientistExpertsNurseBlack WomenPhysicistCompetentBedtimeBiologistChemistElectronicsBedtime Stories Author:Frances M. Beal
“I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.” KnowsWorldTryingWarCountryWonderClassEnglandMannersWar Of The WorldsGermanyWorld War IiWorld War ICoatsMinkMink Coats Author:Arthur Wimperis
“Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.” PayImpossibleHavensShopping Author:Arthur Wimperis