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Linton Kwesi Johnson

"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."

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

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“I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.”
“There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.”
“I think it's offensive to equate evangelical Christians, Catholics, others that view marriage as between a man and a woman, as being racist. We're not racist. We love our fellow man, we think we're all equal under God's eyes, we don't believe we should change the definition of marriage simply because of opinion polls or because of a court that quite frankly isn't looking at the constitution.”
“Those who will not start, will never finish.”
“If I was not racing then I would own a ranch where people could come and hunt. It would be fun and laid back every day.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much and being on set, my inclination is to try to get back to that as soon as possible. There's just never much of a gap.”
“I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.”
“You gotta think positive, you know. Make the obstacles opportunities. Thats my philosophy.”

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