Scallops hotel - Noises People of Color Make lyrics

Living one place together... I'm just talking about going from state to state, or even outside the city of New York. You have some place else... I mean things have changed absolutely in my lifetime, and they had changed because we made them change It was more than a movement, it was a revolution that took place here in this country. It was a revolution first and foremost inside the minds of us, black people. You know first of all, I remember speaking for myself and generalizing on the basis, first of all to realize that I was a part of a national community of black people. You know it never occurred to me, beyond say Bedford Stuyversant– which was big enough for me– that was it, but to say also that I was intimately connected and my destiny is intertwined with black people in Birmingham, Alabama, or Watts, here in LA California. This was a stunning concept So that was a revolution first of all that we constituted a national community, secondly that we suffered a common set of life and d**h restrictions upon ourselves as human beings. Third, that we could do something about it