--- title: "1 Dirt Earth Quotes By Kevin Young" description: "1 Dirt Earth quotes by Kevin Young. Plus more from Kevin Young and more Dirt Earth sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/kevin-young-8117_mud_i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of_1741190.jpg" --- > [I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of-mud-and-dirt-and-earth-sun/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/kevin-young-8117_mud_i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of_1741190.jpg) ## More by Kevin Young > [There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/there-s-always-been-really-interesting-diverse-black-voices-talking/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [“At night I count not the stars but the dark.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/at-night-i-count-not-the-stars-but-the-dark/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-think-barnum-is-at-the-center-of-american-culture-he-s-helping-to/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-do-think-there-s-a-certain-savviness-to-be-able-to-recognize-the/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between the p…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/here-are-the-facts-my-folks-grew-up-so-poor-that-in-the-words-of-redd/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/even-toni-morrison-claiming-bill-clinton-as-black-could-not-prepare/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/a-dj-draws-a-connection-between-two-seemingly-disparate-things-and/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/forget-reparations-we-need-to-rescue-aspects-of-black-culture/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-remember-in-the-80s-people-would-literally-have-arguments-over-the/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/in-african-american-culture-there-s-often-a-family-historian-someone/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [“Deep Song Belief is what buries us—that & the belief in belief— No longer do I trust liltlessness —leeward is the world's way—Go on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/deep-song-belief-is-what-buries-us-that-the-belief-in-belief-no/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [Is there a bad song on 'Sign O' The Times?' There isn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/is-there-a-bad-song-on-sign-o-the-times-there-isn-t/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/that-sense-of-mystery-but-also-of-revelation-is-what-i-turn-to-poems/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/in-a-long-poem-or-a-sequence-of-poems-you-re-trying-to-formalize-your/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) > [We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't quite explain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/we-quickly-erase-hoaxes-once-exposed-excising-the-monstrous/) [Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dirt-earth/kevin-young/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dirt Earth Quotes By Kevin Young", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kevin Young" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of-mud-and-dirt-and-earth-sun/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/kevin-young-8117_mud_i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of_1741190.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/kevin-young-8117_mud_i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of_1741190.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/kevin-young-8117_mud_i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of_1741190.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.” — Kevin Young", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dirt-earth/kevin-young/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dirt-earth/kevin-young/", "name": "Dirt Earth Quotes by Kevin Young", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dirt-earth/kevin-young/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/kevin-young-8117_mud_i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of_1741190.jpg" }, "description": "1 Dirt Earth quotes by Kevin Young. 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