Being An Outsider Means Not Being Heard,

I Believe There Was A Big Bang And That Because Of That We Are All Connected Into Infinity, And I Know Very Little Having To Do With Human Beings That Doesn't Also Have To Do With Connection.

I Am For Anything That Makes Teens Visible In An Honest Way... In Other Words, Anything That Represents Them The Way They Are, Positively Or Negatively.

I Figure If Doc Is Right About The Time I Have Left,i Should Wrap Up My Adolescence In The Next Few Days, Get Into My Early Productive Stages About The Third Week Of School, Go Through My Midlife Crisis During Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, Redouble My Efforts At Productivity And Think About My Legacy, Say, Easter, And Start Cashing In My 401(k)s A Couple Weeks Before Memorial Day.

There Is No Jesus Without Judas, No Martin Luther King, Jr., Without The Klan; No Ali Without Joe Frazier; No Freedom Without Tyranny. No Wisdom Exists That Does Not Include Perspective. Relativity Is The Greatest Gift.

Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up To Date With Language And With Certain Kinds Of Thinking. I Often Feel Like I Have To Go Back To That 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, And That Forms The Core Voice. I Can Draw On Teens From 1964 To 2001 To Find A Part Of The Voice I Need.