Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
ADRIAN MATEJKABones 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
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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 Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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 mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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