"I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society."

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Source : "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#Motivation Quotes #Writing Quotes #Black Quotes

“Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!”
“I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.”
“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”
“When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.”
“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”
“But what is art other than revealing human nature?”
“No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.”
“As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.”

Source : Elizabeth A. Johnson (2011). “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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