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1. "Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs." ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
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. "I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste." ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "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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