Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated but my audience has been very good – they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
