"Back in those early days when I began……" — Linton Kwesi Johnson
"Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom."
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11 Quotes by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson has 11 quotes on this site.
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Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.
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At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but…
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I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,
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Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no…
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The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same…
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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral…
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I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You…
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I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from…
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The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot…
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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
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More Anger Quotes
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
— Aristotle
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the…
— Aristotle
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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