Author: 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.

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

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.

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

Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

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.

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

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