9+ Lemn Sissay Quotes And Sayings

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

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

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.

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 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.

The adoption process [in 1960s Britain was] an industrious, utilitarian solution: the government, the farmer; the adopting parents, the consumer; the mother, the Earth; and the child, the crop.

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

Looked after children - fostered, adopted or orphaned - [often] grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.