Etheridge Knight Quotes

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

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• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Men
  • Parents

• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Want
  • Death

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Time
  • Poet
  • Shall

• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Box
  • Lunch

• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • Death
  • Know

• I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Black
  • Away
  • Leather

• A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Me

• I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

  

  Kara Walker
  • She
  • Black
  • Artist

• I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Thunder-spasms the waking be Into Life from Apathy: Life, not Death, is in the gale, - Let the coming Doom prevail!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Death

• It's great to go to work and your boss is a black man, one of your peers, you know?

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Work
  • Great
  • Black

• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Women
  • Guy

• You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Light

• Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

  

  Joan Kirner
  • People
  • Fear
  • Community

• Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

  

  Etheridge Knight
  • Death
  • Black
  • Poetry