Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences…
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience t… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience t…
I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had take… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had take…
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, but when it's quiet you hear a constan… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
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, but when it's quiet you hear a constan…
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
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 p… - 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 p…
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 long way towards r… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
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 long way towards r…
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