Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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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 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 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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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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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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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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