"I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird."

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I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson