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 MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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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 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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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