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We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.
- Kevin Young
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#Online
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#Web
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.
- Kevin Young
#Belonging
#Feel
#Know
#Need
#Visual
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.
- Kevin Young
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#Culture
#Family
#Poet
#Someone
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
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#Here
#Poor
#Up
#Words
Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.
- Kevin Young
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#Face
#Pain
#Pleasure
#Revolutionary
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
- Kevin Young
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#Course
#History
#Hysteria
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.
- Kevin Young
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#Poetry
#Qualities
#Sense
#Think
Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.
- Kevin Young
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#Dark
#Long
#Practice
#Sexuality
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.
- Kevin Young
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#Forgotten
#History
#Shame
#Short
I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.
- Kevin Young
#Growing Up
#Growing
#Kansas
#Know
#Up
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
#Believe
#Discomfort
#Easy
#Me
#Sometimes
One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.
- Kevin Young
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#Fake News
#Fake
#Field
#News
I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.
- Kevin Young
#Earth
#Mud
#Place
#Rain
#Sun
I rather think that archives exist to keep things safe - but not secret.
- Kevin Young
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#Safe
#Secret
#Things
#Think
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
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#Facts
#Imagination
#Reality
#Truth
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