Quotes About Benjamin Zephaniah

#1. An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in an outside way you couldn't hide.

Brit Bennett

#2. Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

Sathya Sai Baba

#3. The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

Mike Lee

#4. This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#5. You made a mistake, and sadly time travel has not yet been invented, so why are you still thinking about it?

Dave Guerrero

#6. If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,

Anish Kapoor

#7. The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people ... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#8. History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#9. Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#10. Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you

Unknown

#11. I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

Hamilton Leithauser

#12. martin learnt quickly to take every day as it came and never expect one day to be the same as the last

Benjamin Zephaniah

#13. I think they had something to do with the killing of Mr. Joseph, miss."

She laughed, as all adults seem to do when they don't believe something.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#14. From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

Ayya Khema

#15. Don't give me truth, just give me gossip
And skeletons from people's closets,
I wanna be normal
And millions buy it,
I am blinded by The SUN.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#16. De young an old are doing it I have a rappin mudder
Everybody has dere rap so let's rap to each other
No matter what yu style or de hat dat yu are wearing
Yu can even get away wida little swearing,
Fuck.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#17. Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

Marina And The Diamonds

#18. A few years ago if yu said yu were Green
Yu were really seen as Red.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#19. The future of every one of us is in our own hands.

Sunday Adelaja