134 Quotes by Kevin Young

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    One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.

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    I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.

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    There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.

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    I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

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    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 think so do poets.

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

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    I think the Internet is a free press, you know?

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    It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

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    I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

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