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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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