Performance Poets Quotes
- To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist… — Barack Obama
- Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson
- The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic… — Peter Davison