Linton Kwesi Johnson Quotes

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: jamaican
  • Birth: August 24, 1952

Topics

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I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

Jim Crace

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Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

GreatEveningYouGoWantBecause

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Anna Neagle

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I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

Amanda Eliasch

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I like Aimee Mann. Her album 'Mental Illness' is so good.

Trixie Mattel

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Whenever Michelle Kwan texts me or mentions my name, I'm like, 'Wow.' I still can't believe that this is someone who I grew up looking up to, and they know my name.

Mirai Nagasu

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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Jon Johansen

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I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took me to a place in regards to music that I love and music that I had made previously. We had a clear understanding of what I wanted to make, and he just seemed like he was an advocate for hardcore, uncompromising hip-hop.

Pusha T

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Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Shahid Kapoor

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My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Richard Ernst

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A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

Georges Rouault

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