Etheridge Knight Quotes

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Prison, 1960s, Sentences

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Love, Rocks, Wind

  Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Action

  Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.14, University of Pittsburgh Press

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Death, Dust, Feet

  Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.55, University of Pittsburgh Press

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Angel, Tears, Spoons

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• 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

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Song, Writing, Pluck

  Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

  Etheridge Knight

  Boys, Bridges, White

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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