Lemn Sissay quotes
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“You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.”
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“I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places”
-- Lemn SissaySource : Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.102, Canongate Books
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“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 atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here”
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“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 existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.”
-- Lemn SissaySource : "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.
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“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 SissaySource : Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.225, Canongate Books
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“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 includes elements of both.”
-- Lemn SissaySource : "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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“Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.”
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“I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.”
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“Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.”
Source : Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”
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“Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.”
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