"This poet is a griot in search of a village."

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Source : Kwame Dawes (2013). “Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems”, p.109, Copper Canyon Press

Kwame Dawes

#Village Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.”
“I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.”
“I won't say I've closed the door on acting.”
“Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.”
“I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.”
“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.”
“The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.”
“We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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