“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
// originally - “La revolución no es una manzana que cae cuando está madura. Tú tienes que hacerla caer.” - Che Guvara
also true for any change, doesn’t have to be revolution. go make apples fall.
![Rest in poetry, incredible lady.
Above, I placed my favorite photo of her by one of her most powerful more recent pieces — which has been cited by many in the Occupy movement as an inspiration.
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died [of complications from rheumatoid arthritis]. She was 82.
She came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and was best known as an advocate of women’s rights, which she wrote about in both her poetry and prose. But she also wrote passionate antiwar poetry and took up the causes of the marginalized and underprivileged.
From her first book of poems in the early 1950s, Rich, a Baltimore native who attended Radcliffe College, showed her feminist bearings. Twenty years later, her image was set when universities began introducing courses in women’s studies and Rich was among the most likely writers to be included.
Selected for the National Medal for the Arts in 1997, the highest award given to artists, Rich refused it.
“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote in a letter addressed to then-President Clinton. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.
- LA Times](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m9t6XBHt1qbnq8oo1_500.png)
Rest in poetry, incredible lady.
Above, I placed my favorite photo of her by one of her most powerful more recent pieces — which has been cited by many in the Occupy movement as an inspiration.
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died [of complications from rheumatoid arthritis]. She was 82.
She came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and was best known as an advocate of women’s rights, which she wrote about in both her poetry and prose. But she also wrote passionate antiwar poetry and took up the causes of the marginalized and underprivileged.
From her first book of poems in the early 1950s, Rich, a Baltimore native who attended Radcliffe College, showed her feminist bearings. Twenty years later, her image was set when universities began introducing courses in women’s studies and Rich was among the most likely writers to be included.
Selected for the National Medal for the Arts in 1997, the highest award given to artists, Rich refused it.
“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote in a letter addressed to then-President Clinton. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.
- LA Times
WTF NYFD just left this hydrant running. Ugh. Not #green! Cc @charitywater #ows (Taken with instagram)
Love doesn’t have to be between 2 people. it can be between strangers. or friends. or one person and a culture that’s just finally starting to find its voice. call it hyperbole or whatever, but i would put it out there that OWS is a new type of love that most of us haven’t had. at least I haven’t— feeling a unity w/ a cultural zeitgeist. it’s a certain type of love and togetherness. just something to consider. love that comes from frustration, or tiredness, or anger, or debt, or a desire to create change. it’s transformative.
So here i’ve mashed up a Rihanna lyric w/ how many are feeling about Occupy Wall Street. If you haven’t seen Rihanna’s INCREDIBLE video for her new single WE FOUND LOVE, directed by Melina Matsoukas, you’re missing out. Just like you’re missing out if you’re in NYC & haven’t gone down to Liberty Plaza. Or gone wherever the Occupy near you is. GO THERE.
