Best quotes by Kevin Young on Black

Checkout quotes by Kevin Young on Black

• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

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• ‟ There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits.

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