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People You Should Know: Teen looks to help shape the world through poetry
Teen looks to help shape the world through verse
Name: Kevin Brown
Age: 19
Personal/family: Darlene Upchurch, mother; Kevin Brown Sr., father; Devin Brown, brother; and Aaliyah Brown, sister.
Occupation: For now I'm just an author and a performing poet.
Volunteer service: St. Paul Baptist Church - I help serve the needy at various dinners. I was in the choir for two years and I help run the children's church on Sundays.
Why is it important? It's an official release book that holds the up and coming generation's thoughts. Thoughts which are expressed through poetry.
One choice of a dinner companion, dead or alive: The great late singer Aaliyah. Aaliyah was just one of those people who I had on a list to meet when I was got older. I loved her music growing up and now that she's dead. I'll never have that opportunity to meet her in the flesh.
I knew I was an adult when: I was allowed to vote.
First job/weirdest job: Selling required books at St. Catherine's bookstore.
My friends describe me as: Deep and blessed. Also very lyrical when it comes to writing poetry.
Person I admire most: Tupac Shakur has motivated me in numerous ways. He has turned just about all of his negative situations into a positive. Tupac Shakur wasn't only a wonderful rap artist, but he was a wonderful poet and actor. I look at Tupac Shakur as basically a teacher. I used to study his ways of writing rhymes as if they were notes for a class.
What I miss most from my childhood: My childhood.
In the next five years I would like to accomplish: A series of released books under my name along with the fame of being a writer, poet, and revolutionizer through poetry.
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