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Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Poetry
Political
Writing
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I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Poetic
Taste
Validation
Sought
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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Discovering
Reggae
Work People Like
Younger People
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The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Djs
Nonsense
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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.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Men
Linton
Passion
Young Man
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Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Cancer
Disease
Important
Looks
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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.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Band
Constant
Loud
Quiet
Used
Avoid
Ringing
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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 / Poet
Anger
Apprenticeship
Defiance
Idiom
Poetic
Resistance
Spirit
Voice
Early Days
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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.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Dream
Goal
Long
Long Way
Realised
Realising
Certainly
End Of The Day
Towards
Mine
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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.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Black Youth
Coming Of Age
Motivation
My Generation
Visceral
Writing
Youth
Articulate
Creatively
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I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Taken
Two
Uprising
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I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Black
Capture
Exhilaration
Felt
Mood
Perspective
Taken
Tone
Two
Wanted
Time Great Black
Part
Poem
Riots
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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.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Biblical
Black
Historical
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....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.
Linton Kwesi Johnson / Poet
Expression
Jamaica
Spiritual
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