16 Quotes by Lemn Sissay

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this – there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

I do... to this day, think that success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I’m alright on that day. I don’t believe I’ve made it–I believe that I’m making it. I believe that I’ve found my past so that I can live in the present, it’s the most important thing to me. The books and the plays and the touring and the gigs and the speeches and the cash... it all pales into insignificance when compared with knowing that I didn’t do anything wrong, and I’m going to be okay now.