American culture Quote by Kevin Young

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender…

— Shabana Azmi

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

— Orson F. Whitney

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully…

— Alex Haley

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in…

— Gerald Brenan

My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me…

— Ruby Dee