Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change. — Kevin Young Anything Copy Share Image
I rather think that archives exist to keep things safe - but not secret. — Kevin Young Archives Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young American Copy Share Image
“I have come to know sorrow's not noun but verb, something that, unlike living, by doing right you do less of.” — Kevin Young Doing right Copy Share Image
When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend. — Kevin Young Books Copy Share Image
Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous. — Kevin Young Dancing Copy Share Image
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we… — Kevin Young Book Copy Share Image
It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page… — Kevin Young About Copy Share Image
For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in… — Kevin Young Black culture Copy Share Image
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a… — Kevin Young Cinema Copy Share Image
I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University. — Kevin Young Professor Copy Share Image
We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number,… — Kevin Young Anonymous Copy Share Image
While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false… — Kevin Young Advocacy Copy Share Image
I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can… — Kevin Young End Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For… — Kevin Young About Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Connection Copy Share Image
I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain. — Kevin Young Mud Copy Share Image
What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little… — Kevin Young Eye Copy Share Image
“I now know pain is part of any journey- that this is the opposite of grief, but grief the only way I… — Kevin Young Death Copy Share Image
For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one,… — Kevin Young Black Copy Share Image
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young American Copy Share Image
