The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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