There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing. — Kevin Young Always Copy Share Image
I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture.… — Kevin Young American Copy Share Image
I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think… — Kevin Young Good Copy Share Image
Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between… — Kevin Young Between Copy Share Image
Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack… — Kevin Young America Copy Share Image
A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.' — Kevin Young Connection Copy Share Image
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or… — Kevin Young Black culture Copy Share Image
I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist. — Kevin Young Best Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young American culture Copy Share Image
“Deep Song Belief is what buries us—that & the belief in belief— No longer do I trust liltlessness —leeward is the world's… — Kevin Young Belief Copy Share Image
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need… — Kevin Young Experience Copy Share Image
In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a… — Kevin Young Connections Copy Share Image
We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't… — Kevin Young Explain Copy Share Image
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it. — Kevin Young History Copy Share Image
I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there. — Kevin Young Both Copy Share Image
“Daylight Savings" Like the money the light doesn't go as far these days” — Kevin Young Daylight savings Copy Share Image
It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits. — Kevin Young Bad Copy Share Image
Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the… — Kevin Young Curious Copy Share Image
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality… — Kevin Young Art Copy Share Image
The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason… — Kevin Young Healing Copy Share Image
Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life. — Kevin Young Great Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism. — Kevin Young American Copy Share Image
