Poetaster, Revo1 (short for Revolution One Love!), with over an hour of spoken word prose for your listening disaster, dares you to attempt to struggle through
"Monday's child is fair of face,
and Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednsday's child is full of woe,
but Thursday's child has far to go..."
- Thursday's Child, Abbey Lincoln, 1958
"You and I
are never in a conflict situation
because we're after the same thing---
we're after the same honkie---
and however we get him is our business.
All that jive about coordination
and keeping people in line and elites
is crap and doesn't really mean anything.
That's not Revolution---that's not anarchy!
And anarchy is what we want.
This country doesn't even have anything
that we can't build again if we need it.
Even to try to think of taking over
and preserving General Motors--what for?
Nobody's trying to make the system Black;
we're trying to make a system that's human
so the Black folks can live in it.
This means we're trying
to destroy the existing system.
It's not even a question
of whether Black folks can run it
better than white folks.
We don't have to prove to whiteys
that we can--and if we took over their system
it would be for that reason.
We haven't got to prove anything to honkies
because they are nobody's authority
on anything."
- (Chapter 4, Page 50, Paragraph 2, Gemini, 1971)
A Revolutionary Tale, Nikki Giovanni
