Top 23 Kwesi Johnson Quotes
#1. The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.
Kirsty Logan
#2. 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
#3. At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
Ziaur Rahman
#4. 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
#5. I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
#6. Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
#8. Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.
Christian McKay
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
Vince Cable
#14. Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Joey Bishop
#15. When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
Angela Bassett
#16. 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
#17. Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#19. I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
Tom Jenkinson
#20. He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.
John Green
#21. Between tomorrow dream and yesterday's regret is today's OPPORTUNITY.
Unknown
#22. With love, give up better for the best and without a rest.
Debasish Mridha
#23. 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
