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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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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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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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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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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 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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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