Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)
“The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.”
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.
" No Worst, There Is None http://www.bartleby.com/122/41.html", lines 1-2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
About Neuromancer
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
“Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.”
" don corleone http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/corleone.html" (essay)
“Every kid with a disability has the right to go to school.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
… I can honestly say I've not been tempted to give up veganism in 27 years. I sometimes smell a chip shop and like the smell but then feel guilty because fish might be part of it. But I'll go home and make vegan chips. After all these years, my favourite food is my mother's butter bean stew with whole potatoes, yam and dasheen. I don't think I've ever made a meal for her, to be honest. I think she would consider it a failing of her motherhood and say "Boy, get out the kitchen."
"Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Age of the Earth
“Kids are my favorites … their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools.”
As quoted in "TV and Classroom Physicist : 'Professor Wonderful,' Julius Sumner Miller, Dies" by Gerald Faris, in The Los Angeles Times (16 April 1987) http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-16/news/mn-721_1_julius-sumner-miller
