All black Quote by Etheridge Knight

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Etheridge Knight

“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.”

— June Jordan

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

— Carl Sandburg

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“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

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

— Anonymous

“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.”

— Michael S. Harper

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri