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Kevin Young Quotes

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I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

Years University Professor Those

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

Free Think Internet You Know Press

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 pretty much our notions of the circus.

Culture Think American Now Circus

In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's easier to believe that my discomfort comes from some fact that is being hidden from me.

Me Believe Easy Complicated Settle

Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change.

Change Culture You Know Become Our

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

Think Try Hard Deceive Deceived How

For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too.

Creativity Lie Identity Black Lying

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

Pain Face Pleasure Act Revolutionary

Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.

Thinking Hip-Hop Dancing Fact Them

At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.

Music Black Language American Ignore

When I'm in full-on writing mode and have the day, I try to get in my office around 10 A.M. and stop once 'Judge Judy' comes on at 4, when I quit and come down. Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit - if she can make the tough calls, then so can I.

Day Writing Tough Judge Down Stop

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.

Feel Belonging Know Need Same Share

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