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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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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 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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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