"Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace."

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

Etheridge Knight

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“When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.”
“The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.”
“In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.”
“Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.”
“I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.”
“Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”
“My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes”
“Kisses were better than potions.”

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