I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

- Lemn Sissay

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I…

- Lemn Sissay

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

- Lemn Sissay

Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the a…

- Lemn Sissay

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

- Lemn Sissay

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

- Lemn Sissay

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but …

- Lemn Sissay