Guilty As Hell. Free As A Bird.

Art And Activism Can Be Symbiotic. They Don't Have To Be, Of Course; They Can Also Be Contradictory.

I Don't Know That I Ever Bought Into The "american Dream." I Was A Child Of Privilege. I Grew Up In The '50s And It Was A Quiet Time In America, At Least On The Surface And I Grew Up In A Kind Of Feathery Bed Of Privilege.

I Was Terrible Student At Michigan, Terrible. Because There Was Too Much Else To Do. I Was Learning Form Too Many Other Sources To Go To Class.

I Was From My Little Perch In A Prep School I Saw The Civil Rights Movement And It Was Defining The Moral Dimensions Of The Time And I Was Drawn To It And I Read James Baldwin And Read Invisible Man And These Were My Touch Points. But It Was When I Got To Michigan And Saw A Bigger World, A Real World, That I Got Involved.

[students For A Democratic Society] Was On Many Campuses And It Was A Powerful Organization. It Was Founded By Tom Hayden, Who Passed Away Very Recently. It Was One Of The Founders Of Sds And That Chief Writer Of The Port Huron Statement, Which Is Still Worth Reading. It's Kind Of The Bernie Sanders Campaign Document In A Funny Way.