1.
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.
Lemn Sissay
2.
You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.
Lemn Sissay
3.
I think I'll paint roads
on my front room walls
to convince myself
that I'm going places
Lemn Sissay
4.
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
Lemn Sissay
5.
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.
Lemn Sissay
6.
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.
Lemn Sissay
7.
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.
Lemn Sissay
