Scott Momaday: Fix your sight upon something and then go after it, and try not to be deflected. You have something that most of us don’t have and that is time. You have time in which to deliberate, time in which to reflect, time in which to determine who you are. Use it. Don’t panic. A lot of kids tend to panic, but I say just take it easy. But go for something. Move positively towards some goal that you would like to achieve. Ask yourself how you would like to be known. Don’t let yourself be determined by others. And this is especially true where young people are concerned, because everybody wants to determine them. And they have very few defenses against that. So I say, for God’s sake, you know, don’t let other people tell you who you are. If I had let people tell me who I was, I would have dropped back there somewhere. Determine who you are, and don’t let anybody else do it for you. That’s the best advice I can give a young person.