"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."

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Source : Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.225, Canongate Books

Lemn Sissay

#Song Quotes #Past Quotes #Rights Quotes

“[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.”
“To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.”
“In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.”
“I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.”
“I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.”
“It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Son of Tarzan: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.18, 谷月社
“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.”
“You can't even stand without risking to fall.”

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