#our generation

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#generation #had #how #lack #libraries

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#chicago #claim #demonstration #everyone #felt

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#dying #feels #generation #like #maybe

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#attitudes #beings #change #changing #generation

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance. ↗

— Albert Claude

#back #been #better #cell #course

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#binary #black #creates #enormous #example

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step? ↗

— Orlando Jones

#big #different #figuring #friends #generation

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#china #event #free #free government #generation

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#books #dressed #everything #generation #going

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#always #everyone #fantasized #generation #hip-hop