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