But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKAYou should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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 a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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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 mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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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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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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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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