When Children Start To Speak They Find

I'm A Fifth Generation Washingtonian And I Was Born And Raised Here. My Kid's A Sixth Generation Washingtonian. Honestly I Wish People Didn't Move Because I Love The People Of The City.

I Remember When Martin Luther King Was Assassinated And Riots Broke Out In The City. We Celebrated Palm Sunday On 14th Street. I Have A Memory Of Walking Down The Street With Buildings Smoldering, And Soldiers And Cops Everywhere. Anyways, It [st. Stephen’s] Was A Church That Really Taught Me The Things I Needed To Learn To Not Go To Church. But I Think It Is A Church That Does Great Work, I Went To A Wedding There Three Days Ago.

I Have Thousands Of Tapes, And Photos And Fliers, Letters, Posters, Artwork - Basically Everything That Ever Happened, I Kept. I'm Not A Hoarder, Though. I'm Sort Of A Librarian.

Ultimately, I Know What I'm Doing And Why I'm Doing It. I'm Trying To Be A Construction Worker. I'm Trying To Make Things. If People Are Not Interested In That, Fine. I Just Don't Give A Damn.

I Think That The Idea Of Straight Edge, The Song That I Wrote, And The Way People Have Related It It, There's Some People Who Have Abused It, They've Allowed Their Fundamentalism To Interfere With The Real Message, Which In My Mind, Was That People Should Be Allowed To Live Their Lives The Way They Want To.