Kevin Young
Quotes by Kevin Young
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Deep SongBelief is what buries us— that& the belief in belief— No longerdo I trust liltlessness— leewardis the world'sway— Go onplunge in— the lungs willlet us float.Joy is the mile-high ledgethe leap— a breathabove the lip of the abandonedquarry— beliefthe dark the deep.
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How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-
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Deep SongBelief is what buries us— that& the belief in belief— No longerdo I trust liltlessness— leewardis the world'sway— Go onplunge in— the lungs willlet us float.Joy is the mile-high ledgethe leap— a breathabove the lip of the abandonedquarry— beliefthe dark the deep.
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How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-
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We had moved cross-country from upstate New York to Kansas in the heat wave of 1980, with two cars, no air-conditioning, and a black dog. I can still see the infernal temperature of a hundred and nineteen degrees on a bank sign somewhere near Ohio.
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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.
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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.
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Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.
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