black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.

Related Topics

Between Complicated Contrast Have Not

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Being Black Getting Hungry PIcked Thinking
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater
By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Amplify Honest Mean Myself Mythological Trying Version
I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Emote Learned never Poem Though Type Watching
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 MATEJKA

Balance Excellent Fortunately Over Perception Place Sometimes
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
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Allowed Band Bone Boy Different Emotional Grouch Posotion Show Sympathetic Worked
I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

After Forever Good Hear Poetry Way
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Much One People Struggle Surprised Thing Writing Writing. Poem
But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Become Clear Country Nine Past Resent Speak Thinking Very Year
You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Album Check Forever Man Out Transformed
Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Before Food Insecurity System Thinking
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.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Autobiographical Enough Happened Honest More Poem
Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Balance Bigotry Line Over Perception Place Regional State Thinking
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Fully Fun Hardest Mean Open Poem Thing Writing
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Back Come Poem Way Written

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0