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Connection Quote by Kevin Young

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“A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'”

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There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

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“At night I count not the stars but the dark.”

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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…

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Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.

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I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.

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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…

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“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…

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Is there a bad song on 'Sign O' The Times?' There isn't.

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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…

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There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

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When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

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“Your passion is your connection to God.”

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“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He…

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“If you cannot wait for time to unearth roots, you must dig.”

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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be…

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I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure,…

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I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of…

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Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

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