"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 taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time."

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

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“I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.”
“The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.”
“The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.”
“An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.”

Source : Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”
“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”
“War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.”
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.”

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