I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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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 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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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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.
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