If Everyone Started Off The

What Is 'power' Anyway? Power Is An Ego Trip. Power Is A Way To Rise Yourself Up By Lowering Others, And I Want Nothing Of It.

I Did A Lot Of Research On A Couple Different Things. One Was, How Do People Handle Hating Themselves And Hating Others? And Hatred Is A Secondary Emotion, I Think; It Always Springs From Something Else ... Usually Fear, That's Probably What It Is. So I Looked A Lot At That.

Sometimes When We Forget To Do Things For Others, It's Because We're Too Wrapped Up In Our Own Problems.

You Know, This Technology That We Have, And The Internet And Twitter And Facebook - I Get So Many Of Those Emails That Talk About Hard Times That Kids Have Gone Through, How Books Have Helped Them, But Also Happy Times.

Even So, I Was Proud Of Myself For Taking Action At All. I Didn't Hide Or Run Away Or Pretend The Ugliness Didn't Happen. I Stood Up And Said Something That Was True. I Said It Out Loud, And By Doing So, I Was Standing Up For Lots Of People, Not Just Me.