Top 9 Etheridge Knight Quotes
#1. I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
Etheridge Knight
#2. Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
Etheridge Knight
#3. To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.
Etheridge Knight
#4. You have to be telling people essentially "I love you," or you have no basis for your art.
Etheridge Knight
#5. Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
Etheridge Knight
#6. I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
Etheridge Knight
#7. Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.
Etheridge Knight
#9. Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
messages, galvanizing my genes.
Etheridge Knight
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