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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.

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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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 just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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