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Lemn Sissay Quotes

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

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Dysfunction, Reactions, Untruth

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

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

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

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

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.

Lemn Sissay
Thinking, Two, People
"'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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.

Lemn Sissay
Years, Adults, Cyberspace
"'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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