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Kevin Young Quotes

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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World Looking Think Powerful Know

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

Alone Happy Rich Possibilities Rise

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

Live Selfish Restaurant Go Want

I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.

Work Father Mother Think Work Ethic

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

Man Yourself Questions You First

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

Success People Me Tough Think Find

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Thinking Voting Agreeing

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

Good Myself Day Me Feel Good Think

If I ended up having a big name, I'm still going to keep that fire because that's what just drives the great ones.

Great Fire Name Up Big Going

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

Character Child People Sister Evil

I am a very shy and closed person. I stay in my house. The only time I go out is for award functions and maybe interviews. Because, this is part of my profession and I have to do it. Otherwise, I stay in my house or attend some classes.

Time I Am Award House Person Go

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

Business Rich Someone You Nice Need

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

Chelsea Clinton

Women Little Girls Think You House

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