This is for anyone who has ever been misunderstood.

All I want to do,
is write.

[Whispers:] Is she crazy? Is she crazy? Is she crazy?
[Whispers:] Is she crazy? Is she crazy? Is she crazy?

A lot of people have been talk-ing.
A lot of people have been ask-ing,
Is she crazy? 
Is she crazy?
Is she --- I say
I’m not half-crazy enough.

I want to be crazy enough to change your mind
Crazy enough to make you realize
Crazy enough to write the lines
that change the world. 

Have you ever met anyone,
that didn’t mind being crazy?

Never mind the lies—
Never mind the eyes—
that look with pity

All I want to do,
is write.

I want to be crazy enough to change you mind
about the world and all that’s in it
Crazy enough to make you realize
change is possible if you begin it
Crazy enough to write the lines
that change the world.

I want to be crazy as the slave who sang,
“No-body knows, the trouble I see”
Or, “Do Lawd, Do Lawd remember me”

Can I be crazy as Harper when she wrote
“Do you blame me that I loved him/
“If when standing all alone”
Or Dunbar when he wrote of
“The mask that grins and lies”
while sitting in his home.

Or when he said, “I know why the caged bird sings”
Or Johnson’s “Till Earth and Heaven ring”
Or Cullen’s “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing”
“To Make a poet Black and bid him…”

Can I be crazy enough,
to write the lines that change the world?

Can I be crazy as Claude’s “If We Must Die”
Crazy enough to ask why,
“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”
Crazy enough to ask, “where you there?”

Crazy enough to say,
“Abortions will not let you forget/
“You remember the children you got that you did not get”

Crazy as Elliot when he wrote,
“Let us go then, you and I
“When the evening is spread out against the sky”

Or, “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies/
“I’m not cute or built to suit a fashon model’s size"

Or, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
“MADNESS”

Isn’t that crazy?

I want to be crazy as my professor when he wrote,
“What is high? What is higher?
“What is learn? What is learning?
“What is higher learning?"

Let me be D. Knowledge – type crazy
“You better not never tell nobody but God” – type crazy
“To be born again… first you have to die” – type crazy
“I am a sick man, I am a spiteful man” – type crazy
“I am an invisible man”
“I am a gorgeous monster”

Have you ever met anyone that wanted to be that crazy?

All I want to do is write.