Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as ‘black’ could not prepare us for the election of America’s first undeniably black president, Barack Obama. Kevin Young Read Quote
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too – hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art. Kevin Young Read Quote
I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they’re not so different. Kevin Young Read Quote
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. Kevin Young Read Quote
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. Kevin Young Read Quote
I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived. Kevin Young Read Quote
Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change. Kevin Young Read Quote
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. Kevin Young Read Quote
