Anna Deavere Smith - Twilight Los Angeles, 1992 (Excerpt from Surfer's Desert - Mike Davis) lyrics

“In the last instance, if you peel away words like, you know, “gang-banger” and “looter” and stuff, this is a city at war with its own children, it refuses to talk to those children, And the city doesn't want to face these kids, or talk to its kids, And I think, I think it's the same thing probably with the white middle cla**, but I guess for me to sound like of a sop, for I've come to realize what we've lost.” (29)