Etheridge Knight Quotes
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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.
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To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
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Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
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Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
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We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.
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I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
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