Eventually, If It's On Your Mind, You

I Used To Think I Was Poor. Then They Told Me I Was Not Poor, I Was Needy. They Told Me It Was Self-defeating To Think Of Myself As Needy, I Was Deprived. Then They Told Me Underprivileged Was Overused. I Was Disadvantaged. I Still Do Not Have A Dime But I Have A Great Vocabulary.

I Think We Overrate Experience And What We've Been Through In Terms Of Our Success At Doing The Work We Do. There Are Many People Who Get Beat Up, Who Suffer, Who Are Victimized, And Then They Sit Down To Write And They Write Crap.

Good Swiping Is An Art In Itself.

At The Time, Liberals Didn't Understand That They Had First Amendment Rights. So, I Was Doing Cartoons In This Narrative Cartoon Form About Subject Surrounding That And As I Was Turned Down By Editor After Editor At Each Publishing House, I Began To Notice On Their Desks This New Newspaper Called The Village Voice, Which I Then Went And Picked Up And Thought, Well My God, These Editors That Were Turning Me Down All, Whom Tell Me How Much They Like My Stuff, But They Don't Know How To Market It Because Nobody Knows Who I Am. If I Got Into This Paper, They Would Know Who I Am.

The Artwork Had Very Little To Do With The Thought Process, And The Writing Too, For That Matter. What Happens, Happens, And It Happens Outside The Brain.