GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Luis Valdez: Biography from Answers. Luis Valdez (born 1940) was founder of the El Teatro Campesino in California and is thought to be the father of Mexican American theater.
Playwright and director Luis Valdez is considered the father of Mexican American theater. In 1965 he founded El Teatro Campesino, a theater of farm workers in California. This project inspired young Mexican American activists across the country to use the stage to give voice to the history, the myths, and the present-day political concerns of Mexican Americans. In later years, Valdez has tried to portray Mexican American life for a mainstream audience, and his popular 1987 film La Bambahelped him do that.
Valdez was born in 1940 in Delano, California, into a family of migrant farm workers. Learns Techniques of Agitprop After graduating from college in 1964, Valdez joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, but he couldn't give up telling stories and writing plays. For years migrant farm workers had to endure unhealthy working conditions. Further Reading. 219 Famous Jamaican Proverbs. African American Quotes. Education counts a lot, no matter what our status in life is.
Read these wise adages on education from noteworthy Blacks. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass, Address, Washington, D.C Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou Books were my pass to personal freedom. Oprah Winfrey Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman Education is all a matter of building bridges. Ralph Ellison Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver Marcus Garvey, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Malcolm X Mary McLeod Bethune I think education is power. Carmelo Anthony. Poetry of Hari Kumar. I wrote this poem, only to fill this space, because I am terrified of emptiness.
So I am not worried if its prosaic or pointless as long as it fills the space, because, as I told you, I am terrified of emptiness. We all know that, when something’s empty something has to take its place, It’s something about pressure and vacuum. That’s how a vacuum cleaner sucks, emptiness which it must fill with dust. So if I leave this space empty, I am afraid the letters of the other poems in this page will be sucked into this space Muddling them, Befuddling them.
So, like people, there are poems too, that’s only there to fill space In the city of Katmandu Katmandu, Katmandu! The poem is the pattern, Not the words. The poem is not separate from the poet; the poet is an essential part. The poem is larger than the poet. The reductionist is not a poet; he does not understand poetry, he is its murderer. A poem is a manifestation of Wholeness; A Bohmian Wholeness of Implicate Order. Does a poem need images? Teaching Tolerance. Mantra for Respect: Pavan guru paani pitaa (Salok of Japji) "Pavan guru paani pitaa, maataa dharat mahat.
" So the Salok of Japji begins, with a sweet song to all creation. "Air the guru; Water, the father; and Earth, the great mother. " Honor all of life, Naanak reminds us, for life honors us with its gifts. Yogi Bhajan said that the Salok brings us self-satisfaction, elevation, acknowledgement and respect. The Salok of Japji is like a sweet parting gift at the end of Japji. Snatam Kaur's Earth Prayer repeats this beautiful line from the Salok "Pavan Guru Paani Pitaa Maataa Dharat Mahat" The salok ends with the words "Jini Naam dhiaaiaa, gae masakat ghaal. Salok Pavan guru paani pitaa, maataa dharat mahat. Divas raat doe daai daaiaa, khelai sagal jagat. Changiaaiaa buriaaiaa, vaachai dharam hadur. Karmi aapo aapni, ke nerai ke dur.