We Need To Tell Kids Flat Out:

People Told Me To Give Up Trying To Be Special And Settle Down To A Regular Life. There Ain't Nothing Wrong With A Regular Life, And That's The Lord's Truth...but It Wasn't For Me, Because I Wanted To Be Something Special. I Knew How Easy It Was For A Dream To Die. I Seen That All Around Me. You Could Let It Die By Just Looking The Other Way.

I Would Enjoy Having Dinner With The Poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

I Joined The Army On My Seventeenth Birthday, Full Of The Romance Of War After Having Read A Lot Of World War I British Poetry And Having Seen A Lot Of Post-world War Ii Films. I Thought The Romantic Presentations Of War Influenced My Joining And My Presentation Of War To My Younger Siblings.

I Want Young People To Be Hesitant To Glorify War And To Demand Of Their Leaders Justification For The Sacrifices They Ask Of Our Citizens.

Idiots Don't Know They're Idiots, Which Is Unfortunate.