I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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 hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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