'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.
I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.
There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
Every generation is equidistant from God.