Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay MBE is a British author and broadcaster...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
itself native somebody takes
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
adopt money people western
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
people relationship respected
My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
age bigger buy cash pays smaller space technology time
I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.
basic discover human ignores instinct technology
Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.
decided foster god
My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.
song past rights
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.
thinking two people
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.
years cyberspace way
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.
rain home wind
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
wall thinking rooms
I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places
strong motivation children
You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.
dysfunction reactions untruth
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.