I'm Obviously An American Citizen. My Parents

I'm Obviously An American Citizen. My Parents Are American Citizens. But I'm Not Looked At As An American.

The Writers Who Have Been Serious About Recreating American Literature Have Always Been Far And Few Between. What We Do Have At The End Of The 20th Century That We Didn't Have At The Beginning, At That Time Of The Lost Generation Of Rich White Boys, Is A Mixture. We're Now Getting Gay Writers Of Color, Let's Say, And Women Of Color Being Published. This Is Unprecedented.

Once Innocence--an All Too-brief State Of Being, If Such A One Exists--encounters Experience, It Is Transformed. If That Transformation Is Understood, It Becomes Knowledge. And If That Knowledge Is Employed, Then It Becomes Wisdom.

According To Our Social Pyramid, All Men Who Feel Displaced Racially, Culturally, And/or Because Of Economic Hardships Will Turn On Those Whom They Feel They Can Order And Humiliate, Usually Women, Children, And Animals--just As They Have Been Ordered And Humiliated By Those Privileged Few Who Are In Power. However, This Definition Does Not Explain Why There Are Privileged Men Who Behave This Way Toward Women.

I Was Just, Like, Not At All The Office Type; I Was The Artist Type.