![]() Killens attended a number of institutions including Morris Brown College, Howard University, and Columbia University but never earned a degree. John Oliver Killens (Janu– October 27, 1987) was a black American fiction writer whose novels of African American life received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. “Kicking ass and taking names” has spread from military usage to organizational usage both in business and in government. The expression “kicking ass and taking names” was used in the military novel The Green Berets (1965) and was also used in a newspaper story about the military in 1968. Killens served in the army during World War II and possibly heard the expression there. ![]() ![]() The author John Oliver Killens (1916-1987) used “kicking asses and taking names” in three books: Youngblood (1954), And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), and ‘Sippi (1967). "Kick ass(es) and take names” (or “kicking ass(es) and taking names") means to defeat someone (not usually by physically “kicking ass") and to permanently destroy that person’s name or reputation. ![]()
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