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Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

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The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

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At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

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That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world.

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I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

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