Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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 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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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 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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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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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