text
stringlengths
0
353
EmoClass
stringclasses
10 values
EmoAct
float64
1
7
EmoVal
float64
1
7
EmoDom
float64
1
7
SpkrID
stringlengths
1
7
Gender
stringclasses
3 values
and the other one it's because, you know, i came out to my mother and she just saw that us,
X
2.4
4
3.6
193
Female
that was going to be a huge thing in some, there are some places where you cannot be different, like gay
C
2.8
3.8
3.8
193
Female
or. of songs and singing for up to 13 hours at a time, she calls it training herself to be a live jukebox
N
3.6
4.4
4
192
Male
that strong, they respected that. and they treat that like a queen [inaudible]
N
3.083333
4.916667
4
193
Female
said, vasquez sang two of her solo songs.
N
3
4.4
2.6
192
Male
the book started on a cell phone. the voice that i wrote first was his nana's voice.
N
1.8
4.4
3.8
191
Male
and so that was written on my little, my little cell phone, my mobile phone. and at first the run was
N
2.4
4.2
4.4
191
Male
african american that lasted for about a week because i couldn't quite get the story to work around that idea. and also it was
N
3.6
4.2
3.4
191
Male
going to become another tale of racial becoming that i felt would be too close to my first novel. and when i decided that it
N
2.352941
4.352941
2.941176
191
Male
would make more sense for him to be white, then the story opened up. so that was probably one of the most critical,
N
1.6
4
2
191
Male
well,first of all, i was thinking of a good bit about one new media artist in particular, mark tribe, up at brown who had tried to recreate some civil
N
2.8
4.4
4.4
191
Male
rights era speeches and he recorded them and then projected these images inside
N
3
4
3.4
191
Male
in a new media class. this project came up and while it was being discussed, the class broke into two camps.
N
2
4.133333
3.066667
191
Male
one group thought that he was being ironic, that he was in no way being serious. the other half thought that he was
N
2.4
3.8
3.6
191
Male
sincere. and what i found very interesting was this split. and it got me thinking more so about how we make sense of
N
2.8
4.2
2.4
191
Male
what's sincere and what's not, and what's real and what's not, and how we handle irony. and then for quite some time, i'd also had in mind, this question
N
2
3.4
2.8
191
Male
of, what would happen if you expanded the diversity of the cast of characters at a civil war reenactment,
N
3.6
3.8
3.4
191
Male
i definitely wanted it to sound like its own world so that you felt like you were in a real place.
H
2.8
5
3.4
191
Male
also, it needed to sound so different from berkeley as well. in berkeley, most of the activity takes place on the campus.
N
1.4
4.2
2.2
191
Male
so the academic dictionary basically is sort of the farm for that language in brecksville, the demands were a little bit different things actually had to be
N
3
3.8
3
191
Male
marquesha babers is a working poet based out of los angeles. these days she's using her writing to help other teams find their own voices
H
3.8
4.6
4.6
25
Female
this weekend, she is also in bend for the muse women's conference. we caught up with her before the conference kicked off. marquesha babers, welcome to state of wonder,
X
3.705882
5.117647
4.235294
25
Female
will you tell us a little bit about where you grew up in watts?
N
2.8
4
3.2
25
Female
yeah, well, i grew up in a really bad part of watts. i've actually moved around so much during my childhood.
X
2.4
3.8
4.4
190
Female
like i was never stable, but everywhere i went, it seemed to always be the worst part of the neighborhood. you know
S
2.769231
2.692308
3.461538
190
Female
how old were you when you started writing your own poems? i was nine years old when i started writing my own poems. i had went through something
N
3
3.4
4
25
Female
and i said, i had really nobody to talk to at the time. it was a really hard situation for me and i didn't know what else to do. so
S
2.666667
2.833333
3.5
190
Female
i started just writing about it. i just continued to write about it and write about it and write about it.
S
3.2
3.8
3.4
190
Female
you know, it's obvious that you were going through difficult times with, having to take care of your brothers and your mom's working and moving around a lot. sometimes being in between places.
O
2.4
3.2
4.2
25
Female
i'm not trying to crack you open like a can opener, but can you tell us anything about what was going on that needed to work its way to the surface?
N
3.4
3.8
4.8
25
Female
we were homeless. we had been homeless for about seven years, and
S
2.923077
2.307692
3.846154
190
Female
i had a bad experience with a guy. and i couldn't tell my mom about it because
S
2.9
2.3
3.1
190
Female
they were close. so i was afraid to tell my mom, and i couldn't talk to my brothers because i didn't think they would understand what had happened.
S
3.2
2.8
4.2
190
Female
so i was just... i had it just bottled up inside of me, and i didn't know who to turn to, who to talk to,
S
3.153846
2.230769
3.846154
190
Female
or i didn't have a friend that could keep a secret.
S
2.6
2.6
2.6
190
Female
so that's what was
X
3.2
3.6
3
190
Female
really my main focus at that time, was i needed to tell somebody, and the paper was the only person i could talk to. right.
S
2.833333
2.916667
3.333333
190
Female
well, will you share with us a little bit about how did you start reading your poems to other people?
X
3.4
4.2
4.2
25
Female
the first time i read a poem out loud to an audience was at church. my mom, she had found one of my books that i write in,
H
5
5.4
4.6
190
Female
and she read the poem herself. and she decided that she thought it would be, i guess, good therapy for me to
X
3.2
4.4
3.8
190
Female
perform it for the church, and get some help with what i was going through. and so she made me get up in front of the church. so i did.
S
2
3
3
190
Female
how has your poetry changed as you've started to read it to people?
N
4.2
4.8
4.4
25
Female
it went from, during that very sad time in my life, from being very sad-oriented poetry
S
2.636364
3
3
190
Female
to more uplifting, like, i've been there, and i'm here to help you, type poetry.
N
3.272727
5.363636
4.454545
190
Female
will you read for us?
X
4.6
4.6
4.4
25
Female
sure. this poem is called girl, and it's one of my newest poems.
N
3.2
5
4.2
190
Female
people only see me as that girl. that fat girl, just a little too black girl, always sitting in the back girl, that girl.
A
4.6
1.8
4.8
190
Female
people tell me you're weak girl. no one wants to hear you speak, girl. look at me, i'm not at your feet girl, stop crying, girl. it's not like you're dying, girl. no one will like you
C
4.4
2
4.6
190
Female
for who you are, and your career definitely won't go far. not with that hair, those clothes, those shoes, you really need to change
X
3.8
2
4.2
190
Female
all of you, girl. sometimes i tell myself, "you know depression ain't cute, girl. and you just stop waiting and do what you have to do, girl.
S
4.2
2.6
3.8
190
Female
i mean, if you're going to end it, then do it already, girl. just make sure you keep your hand steady girl. you want to get it right girl, just wait til night girl then get the knife girl.
N
5
3.8
5.2
190
Female
it only takes one slice girl." look at you, too weak to take your own life girl. but god told me, "aren't you tired of waiting to die, girl?.
S
3.8
2.8
4.8
190
Female
all you have to do is try, girl. i gave you your life to live, girl. i gave your gift to give, girl. i am always here, girl. it's okay to shed a tear,
N
4
4.6
4.8
190
Female
girl. just don't fear girl, because you are that girl, made strong enough to carry the world on your back girl. so stand up straight
O
5
5.6
5.4
190
Female
girl. you will be great girl. it is your fate girl. don't worry about the past girl. remember who was first shall be last. so you've been through the worst
H
4.6
4.8
4.8
190
Female
girl. now it's your time to be first girl." then god held out his hands. he said, "take this, girl. don't waste it, girl. you'll know when
H
4.8
5.6
5.8
190
Female
to use it, girl. it's a miracle, girl. like you, you are a miracle ,girl."
H
2.923077
5.384615
4.538462
190
Female
wow. thank you. would you tell me about the pivot in that poem? the point at which it turns from the negative voices
H
4.4
5.2
3.6
25
Female
in one's head, to messages of support and voices saying, "yes, you can do this."
N
3.2
5.2
4
25
Female
i didn't want it to just be a negative poem, just to end on a negative note. i wanted to show that there is
X
3.2
3.8
3.6
190
Female
a possibility to overcome. you are worthy of... that you are special. you are beautiful no matter what anyone says.
H
3.4
5.8
3.6
190
Female
like, god created you, and only god can judge you. not even you can judge you like god can judge you. and that was the point of the poem.
C
4.2
4.6
4
190
Female
marquesha babers. i want to thank you very much for taking some time to talk to us, and we're looking forward to seeing you in bend this weekend.
H
4.75
5.333333
4.583333
25
Female
no problem, and thank you so much.
H
3.4
5.6
3.2
190
Female
marquesha babers gave a speech at the muse women's conference in bend just this morning. you can catch her tomorrow at 1:00 pm at the conference for a workshop.
N
4.5
4.5
4.833333
25
Female
huge black and white photographs line the walls of upfor gallery in portland this month. the images look pretty abstract at first,
N
4.2
5
4.6
25
Female
black backgrounds with irregular white shapes clustered across them. step a little closer, and you see these are little tableaus
N
4.2
4.2
3.8
25
Female
made by the visual artist, rodrigo valenzuela, and they've got quite a bit of detail. they capture structures he made for a show on view right now at seattle's frye museum, hedonic reversals.
H
4.4
4.6
4.6
25
Female
the white shapes definitely suggest buildings, but the forms are so rough-edged. are they under construction, or in a state of decay? we asked rodrigo valenzuela.
N
3.2
4.2
5.2
25
Female
they're like in this in between point, and they are open for interpretation for what the viewer wants it to be. some people look at them as a demolition. some other people-
N
3.2
3.8
3.4
481
Male
are these all images of works you developed for hedonic reversal?
N
2.6
4
3
25
Female
yeah. and then you hedonic reversal is a large installation i built at the frye art museum. and to
F
3.8
4.4
4
481
Male
figure out the way that we look at ruins, so the aesthetic of ruins, without taking advantage of the pain that ruins have
N
3.4
3.8
3.6
481
Male
implicit in them. i didn't want to go and document ruins in detroit, for example, because i don't think it's fair for people that live in
N
3.4
3
3.2
481
Male
detroit [coming] this guy out of town, overstate the size in their pain. it is a social issue.
S
3
3.4
3.6
481
Male
i don't want to read too much into the places you've been living and working, but you have been in seattle and houston, two cities that have experienced explosive
N
4.6
4.6
4.6
25
Female
growth over the past two decades. was looking around those places very informative for what you've been working on?
N
3.8
4.2
4
25
Female
yeah, definitely both have... mostly seattle have big impact on this idea of the ruin, mostly in places that
N
2.2
4
2.4
481
Male
have a very recent history, or not a very large past. you know, traveling around south america to peru, and
N
3.2
4.4
3.4
481
Male
i travel around mexico, costa rica, [inaudible 00:06:39], i have gone through most of central america by bus, by ground. so i have seen how people
X
2.6
4.2
4
481
Male
understand that past. the ruins are there, and the ruins are present within a cosmopolitan city, or it's a source of knowledge of understanding themselves in the present.
N
4.2
4
3.8
481
Male
usa doesn't have too much of that, you know? the past, or the ruins, they just meaning economic collapse.
X
3.4
3.4
4.2
481
Male
tell us a little bit about your process for the images that are on view here now.
N
3
4.6
4.4
25
Female
i was thinking about the subject of the ruin. i mean, making these plaster molds and little tiny figures, like very solid, simple,
N
3.8
5
4
481
Male
plaster shapes, that i paint white. so they are very, very monochromatic structures that they aim to resemble a structure,
N
3.2
4
3.8
481
Male
or like a miniature. i photographed that. i go to the dark room, develop the film. i
N
4.6
4.6
3.6
481
Male
scan the film. i print it very large, to like human-size, like eight-by-eight feet. so this [inaudible] is structure with all the details and all the problems
N
3.4
3.8
3.8
481
Male
that they have in this miniature. slowly, they become the focal point, or the difference of texture, or the difference of
N
3.2
4.4
3.2
481
Male
quality, and all the difference in scale. they become very present when you have them in eight-by-eight feet. and then i paint two-by-fours,
N
4
4.4
4
481
Male
and i make it these big plastered shapes that i place against a wall. and then i rephotograph that, the images
N
4.2
4.2
3.6
481
Male
echoing themselves, and the [generated] time you can see the past, and you can see that they will have a future. if i keep playing this game or just [rephotograph]
N
3
4.4
3.4
481
Male
in every photo. among the many little jokes that valenzuela builds into his tableaus are price tags left on some of the pieces of wood that make up his towers, pieces of blackboard chalk
N
3
4.2
4.2
25
Female
with just the right [force] perspective to make you think they're spare marble columns. on some, his own ghostly footprint is left in powdery
D
4.2
3.8
3.4
25
Female
white dust. it's impossible to tell looking at these whether as ruins, they were something
H
3.4
4
3.8
25
Female
wonderful and graceful, or something functional.
N
2.6
4.6
3.2
25
Female
but we have that relationship with all the ruins. you know, when you may go to rome, and be very amazed for this room,
X
4.2
4.2
3.4
481
Male
and the beauty of the room, only the feelings that you get in the room. and if you do a little research, maybe the public bathroom from the roman... you think that this
N
3.6
3.8
3.4
481
Male
place have a bigger signifier than what they are. we are surrounded by like, banalities, and like, things that make our life, and make our culture.
N
4
4.2
4.4
481
Male
they're very simple. like phone cord, and like plastic will remain longer than any of these things. that is what other generation will know us for.
O
3.2
4.2
4.4
481
Male
rodrigo valenzuela. his exhibition, hedonistic reversal, is on view at the frye museum in seattle and at upfor gallery in portland.
N
4
5
4
25
Female