"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 poetic idiom."

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Source : "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#Voice Quotes #Resistance Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.”
“Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.”
“I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.”
“I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.”
“Nothing can stop an artist from creating.”
“Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.”
“My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.”
“I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.”

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