Just thought I’d put this stuff out there. There are a few things we could use here. We deserve them, they will be ours…
Archive for category Biography of a Revolution
Wish List
Dec 29
Woody Guthrie
Dec 29
Guthrie was tired of the radio overplaying Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”. He thought the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent. Partly inspired by his experiences during a cross-country trip and his distaste for God Bless America, he penned “This Land Is Your Land”, in February 1940; it was subtitled “God Blessed America.”
Jimmy Mirikitani
Dec 15
Jimmy Mirikitani is a man that once lived on the curb sides of Washington Square and created his artwork there on the streets. His favorite mediums were crayon, colored pencil and ballpoint pen because they didn’t smear when left out in the rain. He refused handouts because he was not a beggar; he was an artist and he sold and traded his artwork to survive. If you knew nothing else about him but what is expressed in his artwork, you would know that he was a man with a poet’s soul, and a man who had experienced and lived through trauma.
Jimmy’s motto – Make art, not war.
Václav Havel
Dec 1
A true rebel with a cause, Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, and former dissident. He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted [...]
Nina Simone
Nov 17
Nina, black swan, The High Priestess of Soul, you were lover, sister of coveted skill, raging bitch, graceful midnight dancer, tenacious voyager, pesky school girl, gifted and black minority, bipolar and convoluted woman, a human with faults like anyone, a soul with good intentions, a bringer of strange fruits that would change the world forever with your relentless passion to be you to the fullest. You let no one get in your way as you walked through the obstacles in life as though they were themselves the doorways to your success. …
Georgia O’Keeffe
Nov 2
At times her images seemed so crackling with energy that a tornado or bolt of lightning might strike at any moment. This gave them at times a luminosity, or at others an almost drug-induced vividness, as though she was, through the paintings, trying to convey her ecstasy at the beauty glimpsed in shells, bits of flora, sky vistas, trees, skulls, isolated adobe structures, or the kaleidoscope of scenery.
Sri Aurobindo
Oct 28
Sri Aurobindo falls into the exclusive category of poet-seers who have achieved the highest realisations and have endeavoured to share that experience with the rest of humankind. The teachings and very utterances that spiritual masters of this calibre offer to the world come from the most sublime realms of consciousness that human beings can attain to. Their poetry transcends the page to become mantra, an invocation to the transcendental consciousness.
Fela Kuti
Oct 20
The past few days, I’ve been diving into the brilliant, ostentatious, moving, tragic world of Fela Kuti. What a testament to human expression, this man is – relentless in his expression, against all odds – he claimed, “I refuse to live my life in fear.”
Fela Kuti – 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997
“My [...]
