Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
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
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 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…
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. - Etheridge Knight
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
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.
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. - Etheridge Knight
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