"Younger people are discovering my work, even though……" — Linton Kwesi Johnson
"Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs."
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11 Quotes by Linton Kwesi Johnson
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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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Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger,…
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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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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the…
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering…
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees…
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one…
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