Black Quote by Etheridge Knight Download Open image “Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.” — Etheridge Knight ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Boys Bridges Leap Poet Poetry Should Steel White
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my… — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
