Lemon Andersen Quotes

#1. I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.

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#2. [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

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#3. Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

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#4. I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.

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#5. No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

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#6. [I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

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#7. I would have to say that I'm haunted. I'm haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won't be satisfied unless I do great work.

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#8. I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

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#9. The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

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#10. I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

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#11. I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

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