Etheridge Knight quotes
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“I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”
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“We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.14, University of Pittsburgh Press
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“Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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“Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.55, University of Pittsburgh Press
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“I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr
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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.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”
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“To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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“Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”
-- Etheridge KnightSource : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr
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“Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
Source : "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.
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“The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.”
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“We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.”
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“All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.”
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“It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.”
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Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
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“Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.”
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“I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it”
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