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I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.
I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.
