It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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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 Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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 it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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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 was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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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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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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