Culture Quote by Linton Kwesi Johnson Download Open image “Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.” — Linton Kwesi Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Act Poetry Cultural Weapon Culture Inspirational Jamaicans Poetry Poetry Cultural Political Political act Politics Reggae Weapons Writing Writing Political
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it,… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste, — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense. — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
…the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs. — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
