![]() Watch this granite planet shake."Īt the end of this monologue, which took Raul about four minutes to deliver while green lines squiggled up and down behind him on a screen, I had no idea whether earthquakes were good or bad or whether we were supposed to be climbing mountains or destroying them or rebuilding them or all three at once. So let's break the ground our fallen heroes are trapped underneath in. Vibrations react to earthquakes, so if sound is vibration, our verbs are its earthquakes. Oppression reacts to revolution and the death of Trayvon Martin reacts to Zimmerman's execution. Newton's Third Law states, 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.' For example, if the action is revision, then the opposite reaction is division. The world is violent while we stay silent. Today I had a dream about a king, but the king wasn't heard. Today I have a dream, but my dream was deferred. The future-the future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm exited this world believing that his earthquake would cause repercussions. You can hear their words cracking the concrete, cracking like the blasts of rebels from the past, cracking like the blast that took Tupac's laugh. One sentence can make the ground move like a tsunami. ![]() ![]() So we crumble mountains, we crack rocks without a pipe. ![]() But the only thing in our way is a mute mountain. And I looked over and I seen the promised land. In 2011, an earthquake devastates Fukushima, Japan. If earthquakes can destroy lives, our voices can rebuild them. Your voices are the reason the planet's axis is tilted, but your silence is the reason this planet is dying. Do not underestimate the Hercules behind your tongue. In 2010, an earthquake takes the lives of 300,000 Haitians. Let's make poets from grace, leaders from beaten slaves. So let's break the ground our fallen heroes are trapped underneath of. ![]() If vibrations can break boulders and devastate lives, then our words can split open minds and alter the geographical shape of its content, because sound is vibration. "In 1906, an earthquake ruptures the San Andreas Fault, killing an estimated 3,000 people. Naturally to kick things off there was a slam poet named Raul, a young man with, as we were told, "powerful words to say about the power of words." I might as well quote the whole thing: ![]()
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