movedto-zanzabug reblogged
make me choose
↳ anonymous asked: ragtime or 1776?
There are people out there - unafraid to feel sorrow, unafraid of tomorrow, unafraid to be weak…unafraid to be strong.
movedto-zanzabug reblogged
It was the music of something beginning, An era exploding, a century spinning In riches and rags, and in rhythm and rhyme. The people called it ragtime!
I'm a poor immigrant, a Jew, who points a camera so that his child can dress as beautifully as a princess. I want to drive from her memory every tenement stench and filthy immigrant street. I will buy her light and sun and clean wind of the ocean for the rest of her life. Now you know me. Now you understand.
RAGTIME AND WHY YOU SHOULD LOVE IT (a semi-aggressive and really emotional presentation)
With the promise of happiness And the freedom he'll live to know He'll travel with head held high Just as far as his heart can go And he will ride Our son will ride On the wheels of a dream