“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution” IfsI CanDifferentHomeReadingBlackWhitePartyHalfSituationPoetRevolutionGayWelcomeIf I CouldTonightBlack PeopleHomosexualityHomosexualGay PrideLesbianismAnti GayAnti DiscriminationPoetry Reading Author:Pat Parker
“This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'” SaidSoulBigsWhiteCompanySeeingGroupsStageBrotherRevolutionMusicalSingersWhirling Dervish Author:Clive Davis
“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” YearsTwoHomeSpiritualNightLostCausesWhiteWalksLandAdventureRevolutionReturnCivilizationBattleTenUltimateTrainWestFinalsAestheticDay And NightExtremistAtlantaHitchhikingRamblingUltimate FreedomGreatest Adventure Author:Christopher McCandless
“In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldBlackWhiteRevolutionLateTwentiesTeensBlack And WhiteIdealism Author:LeCrae
“It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman with a knapsack and in blue jeans. But again I was part of the rucksack revolution there was some grace there. You could put it that way. And confidence as well because I thought of myself as a poet. That was part of it. I was going for that, to have experiences to make the work.” WayYearsFirstsWellsLittlesWhiteGracePoetRevolutionHarderBlueEgyptJeansBlue Jeans Author:Anne Waldman
“We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.” NeedsWhiteHeardRevolutionIndiaInnovationBlueGreenHarnessFisheriesGreen Revolution Author:Narendra Modi
“Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?” HouseGrowsWhiteDivineRevolutionMeatWhite HouseAmerican RevolutionDivine Right Author:Sam Ervin
“The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!” HomeWhiteRevolutionComputerCriminalsLoanSharksCollarsWhite Collar Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“As I've submerged myself in news of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, I wanted desperately to feel part of what was going on. And then it hit me: This is what white people were doing to me after Obama was elected!” PeopleFeelsWantedWhiteMiddleRevolutionNewsEastMiddle EastSweepingSubmergedNorth Africa Author:Baratunde Thurston
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.” PeopleArtistWhiteCitiesEconomicRevolutionMovedSeekingFlightNeighborhoodImmigrantsPhenomenonRefugeeLaddersBettermentIndustrial RevolutionInner CityTenements Author:Cleve Jones
“The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.” GovernmentBlackWhiteRevolutionRacismControlled Book:The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches Source: The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
“The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.” WhiteRevolutionOfficeBlueWorkersReachingTransformedWorkplaceCollarsBlue CollarWhite CollarCubiclesBlue Collar Workers Author:Tom Peters
“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.” LongYoungWhiteFeetRevolutionRedBlueLipsNecksCheeksYoung WomenBasketsDrippingBourbon Book:Revolution Source: Revolution