We Need To Tell Kids Flat Out:

Everything In Life Is Made Up...you Make Up That You Are Happy. You Make Up That You Are Sad. You Make Up That You Are In Love. If You Don't Make Up Your Own Life, Who's Going To Make It Up For You? It's Bad Enough When You Die And Everybody Can Make Up Their Own Stories About You. —mr. Hooft

Can You Become The Hope I Need? Can You Help Me Be More Than It Is Written In My Future Or Past? Is There Another Me To Find?

Each Generation Seems To Invent Its Own Reasons For War.

And What I Was Feeling Was The Wonder Of Being More Than Me, Of Being More Than Mere Here And Now Allowed I Had Become A Shining Star, A Burning Nova Exploded With Love Flying Through An Endlessly Expanding Universe Away From The Me That Was Toward A Me That Is Beyond Understanding.

Within The Black Community, Roughly 60 Percent Of Children Are Born To Single Moms. Moms Don't Have The Emotional Wherewithal To Deal With Their Children. Their English Is Atrocious. Their Speaking Is Atrocious. The Dropout Rate Is Horrendous.