Linton Kwesi Johnson Quotes

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Fire in the head and a dread beat bleeding, beating fire: dread.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Brothers and sisters rocking,
a dread beat pulsing fire, burning.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Inglan is a bitch
There's no escapin' it.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

I woodah write a poem
soh dyam deep
dat it bittah-sweet
like a precious
mernari
whe mek yu weep
whe mek yu feel incomplete

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Evrybady claim dem demacratic
but some a wolf an some a sheep
an dat is prablematic

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Rituals of blood on the burning
served by a cruel in-fighting
five nights of horror an of bleeding
broke glass
cold blades as sharp as the eyes of hate
and the stabbings
it's war amongst the rebels
madness... madness... war.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Shock-black-bubble doun-beat bouncing
rock-wise tumble-doun sound music;
foot-drop find drum, blood story
bass history is a moving
is a hurting black story.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Some polece inna Inglan gat liesense fi kill.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

There are sufferers with guns movin breeze through the trees there are people waging war in the heat and hunger of the streets.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

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Born: August 24, 1952 (age 72)

Bio: Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based Jamaican-British dub poet. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series.

Known for:

Bass Culture (1980)
Dread Beat an' Blood (1978)
LKJ in Dub (1980)
Forces of Victory (1979)
Making History (1984)

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