The Rose That Grew From Concrete

"Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong
it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared."

— Tupac Amaru Shakur, Activist, Poet, and Artist (16 June 1971 - 13 September 1996)

The Art of the People:  An Address

“If these hours be dark,
as indeed in many ways they are,

at least do not let us sit deedless,
like fools and fine gentlemen,

thinking the common toil or not good enough for us,
and beaten by the muddle;

but rather let us work like good fellows

trying by some dim candle light that tomorrow,
when the civilized world,

no longer greedy, strife-ful, and destructive,

shall have a new art — a glorious art,

made by the People and for the People,
as a happiness to the Maker and the User.”

— William Morris, English Poet and Socialist (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896)