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Power. What is it? Just the word itself brings a negative reaction for me. Iâm thinking about the power bad leaders have. Iâm thinking power means the strong doing bad things to the weak, the helpless. I think of the proverb âPower corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.â Power is defined as the capacity to direct or influence the behavior of others; the ability to control people and events. An essay by N. Scott Momaday, author, poet and playwright, defined power as speech. Momaday, a Kiowa Indian born in Lawton in 1934, grew up on an Oklahoma farm and southwestern reservations where his parents were teachers. He has a Ph.D from Stanford and his first novel, âHouse Made of Dawn,â won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ....