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.
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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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 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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the 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 just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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