Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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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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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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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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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 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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