Lemn Sissay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.
-- Lemn Sissay

#Dysfunction #Reactions #Untruth
You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.
-- Lemn Sissay

#Strong #Children #Motivation
I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places
-- Lemn Sissay

#Wall #Thinking #Rooms
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
-- Lemn Sissay

#Rain #Home #Wind
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 Sissay

#Years #Adults #Cyberspace
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

#Song #Past #Rights
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 Sissay

#Thinking #Two #People

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

Lemn Sissay famous quotes

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