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Kevin Young Quotes

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Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.

Home Culture Black Survival Forget

I feel music is another kind of literature.

Music Feel Literature Kind I Feel

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

Life Music Great Quality Say Jazz

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

Song Bad Sign Times

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

Best People Remember Over Guitarist

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

Black America Election First Prepare

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

Me Feel Choose Evolve Come Just

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

Try Mean Different Writer Read Also

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.

Music History People World Think Us

In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.

Think Feel Forget Sometimes Weight

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