Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.