But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’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.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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 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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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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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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