
âItâs the death of the vertical,â he went on. âThey have taken all this time to stand up straight so that they can say âI.â Theyâre very proud of that. The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other peopleâs faces, because thatâs the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about. But if you keep saying âIâ and theyâre saying âI,â you donât get much out of it. Theyâre not really into you, or we, or they; theyâre into I. That makes conversation slow.  â§
— Gil Scott-Heron