I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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