Etheridge Knight quotes

“I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.”
-- Etheridge Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

#Prison Quotes #1960s Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.”
-- Etheridge Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.14, University of Pittsburgh Press

#Action Quotes

“Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.”
-- Etheridge Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

#Love Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.”
-- Etheridge Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.55, University of Pittsburgh Press

#Death Quotes #Dust Quotes #Feet Quotes

“I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.”
-- Etheridge Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

#Angel Quotes #Tears Quotes #Spoons Quotes

“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 Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

#Fall Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Red Quotes

“To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.”
-- Etheridge Knight

Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Pluck Quotes

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

Source : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

#Boys Quotes #Bridges Quotes #White Quotes

“Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

Source : "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

“The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.”

“We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.”

“But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.”

“All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.”

“It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.”

Source : Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

“I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

“The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.”

“Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.”

“I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it”