“There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provid...” — Kevin Young Quote

“There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far from you, a language far from you, but suddenly you're there. You're that person, seeing with that person's eyes. I think that's really tremendous. Even things like cinema or more traditional history can't quite do that.”

“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.”

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

“I cannot do the boy-girl romance, villains etc.; I cannot relish such cinema and I cannot make it.”

“In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.”

“Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.”