what does the revolution must not be televised mean?
He just casually gave us like 20 gems. It's the graceful intent of black poets that keeps oral history of our people going.
[Transcript:
Well, you know, the—the—the catch phrase, what that was all about, "the revolution will not be televised," that was about the fact that the first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move. So when we said that the revolution will not be televised, we were saying that like... that—that—that the thing that's going to change people... is something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It will just be something that you see and all of a sudden you realise, "I'm on the wrong page," or "I'm on the right page but I'm on the wrong note. And I've got to get in sync with everyone else to understand what is happening in this country." But I think that the Black Americans have been the—the only real die-hard Americans here, because we're the only ones who... who carried the process through the process, that everyone else has to sort of like... skip stages. We're the ones who marched, we're the ones who carried the bible, we're the ones who carried the flag, we're the ones who tried to go through the courts, and—and—and being born American didn't—didn't seem to matter. Because we were born Americans but we still had to fight for what we were looking for. And we still had to go through those challenges and those processes.]
