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. Kevin Young Read Quote
A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, ‘Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.’ Kevin Young Read Quote
Footnotes are for proving and showing where you’ve been. Also, they’re for the curious – they can then go and find the information on their own. Kevin Young Read Quote
I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey’s ‘A Million Little Pieces?’ Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible? Kevin Young Read Quote
Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o’s between the p and r. Kevin Young Read Quote
Listen to the late Isaac Hayes covering ‘Walk on By’ by Burt Bacharach or Mayfield singing The Carpenters’ vanilla-seeming ‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’ and you realize soul’s insistence on transformation: Mayfield in particular makes the song not just about love but the start of revolution. Kevin Young Read Quote
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. Kevin Young Read Quote
I remember in the ’80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist. Kevin Young Read Quote
