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