Lemn Sissay Quotes

• Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

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  Dysfunction, Reactions, Untruth

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• You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

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  Strong, Children, Motivation

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• 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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  Song, Past, Rights

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

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• I think I'll paint roads
  on my front room walls
  to convince myself
  that I'm going places

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  Wall, Thinking, Rooms

  Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

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  Rain, Home, Wind

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• A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

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  Thinking, Two, People

  "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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• I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

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  Years, Adults, Cyberspace

  "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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