Etheridge Knight Quotes

#1. doctor is the only man who can tell a woman to take off all her clothes and then send a bill to her husband. ***

Various

#2. 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

#3. First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.

Jeff Garlin

#4. I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.

Barack Obama

#5. We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.

Etheridge Knight

#6. You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.

Jeffrey Lurie

#7. Until you announce me as the #1 contender for the WWE Championship, I suggest you watch me make snow angels.

CM Punk

#8. I love my brother, and I respect his service, i haven't been in Washington ... ever. I'm not part of Washington.

George W. Bush

#9. Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

Cindy Smith-Jordan

#10. He waited patiently until the uproar had died away. It was amazing, he thought, how people would argue against figures on no better basis than 'they must be wrong'.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

Etheridge Knight

#12. I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

G. Willow Wilson

#13. Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

Etheridge Knight

#14. I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

Etheridge Knight

#15. Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Etheridge Knight

#16. You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

Rand Beers

#17. You have to be telling people essentially "I love you," or you have no basis for your art.

Etheridge Knight

#18. To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.

Etheridge Knight

#19. Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

Etheridge Knight