Alice Walker: Not with a bang. But with a whimper.

[thittdc]

the hollow men this is the way it ends



[LillGandhi]

... and it is up to us the make the beginning.

[ijamsville97]

Outstanding!!! Alice Walker is one of my personal hereoes and this video, dear LillGandhi (!), does such justice to her moving poem of conscience. I cannot thank you enough. Peace and blessings!

[ijamsville97]

LillGandhi: brilliant! moving! powerful! Thank you so much for this!!!!!

[marysez]

wow that was powerfull

[LillGandhi]

Eliot's name is among the tags to this video. The big question today is whether we all will end with a big bang or a tiny whimper. My sympathy is with the whimpering child.

[osagemonster]

No one on here giving T.S Eliot credit for this? Read The Hollow Men, this is his final stanza.

The Eliot poem's ending is describing Guy Fawke's failed plan to burn down English Parliament (the plot shared by the movie V for Vendetta). Fawke planned for it to go out with a bang, but he was caught and executed (the whimper). I wish Eliot was at least given some credit somewhere in this video or in one of the comments...

[scruffyeliot]

@osagemonster I know. I love TS Eliot <3

[ddtoots]

god i ove her. when i get depressed about the planet , i read her works and i feel a tad better, because i feel less alone.

oh lili are you in sweden? say hi to Pippi! and have a pice of princess cake for me!

[camcamleelee]

How could you not know who alice walker is!!!! Oh wait, thats right, the machine doesnt want you to know good and peaceful people...so they make sure you are focused on something else, Like Britney spears or racism...

[chantalbernard]

I do hope the meek will inherit the earth (in all ways) as they say, one day.

[camcamleelee]

i hope so too...

[LillGandhi]

Thanks all, for your kind response. I take it to my heart. I really need it, because the social climate between my fellow countrymen and women here in Sweden is rapidly degrading and becoming more egocentric. Most of them haven't even heard about Alice Walker. I'm being met with contempt for caring for others than myself.

[RhapsodyQueen84]

As Alice herself said: "Be nobody's darling. Be an outcast, qualified to live among the dead."

[swirlingturtle]

Thankyou for this. just,... thankyou

[TheBobcatChannel]

Beautiful poem!!!

[crowpoet]

oh alice. you say it with perfection.

[kissthesky90]

Wow. Thank you so much for this beautiful work. I am speechless.

[Theshortysha]

WOW

[jaitara55]

What a wonderful and timely poem and beautifully edited together.

[bfgarry]

Thought provoking indeed!

[mstarfriend]

Thank YOu

[dangaes]

Incredible

[Kazzwald]

This is beautiful.