Kevin Young Quotes
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.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps. Of two dark moons.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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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.
