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.
ADRIAN MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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 just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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It’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.
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