But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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