But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
ADRIAN MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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