"Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes."

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Source : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

Etheridge Knight

#Fall Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Red Quotes

“I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.”
“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.”
“But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1855). “Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith”, p.18
“The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.”
“I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.”
“Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?”
“I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.”

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