Best 7 quotes of Etheridge Knight on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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