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Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste.
Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Which of these British people do you think are in your history?
The “Note” and the “Warning” here need to be taken to heart by everyone.
Poet Benjamin Zephaniah is a Rastafari, a musician and a vegan from Birmingham. His mother was Jamaican and his father Bajan (from Barbados). Benjamin was dyslexic, and at the age of thirteen he could not read or write. He got involved in crime, but says that poetry saved him. His first collection of poetry for children was Talking Turkeys. Now he has seven honorary doctorates and, besides writing and making music, works with all kinds of disadvantaged people.
You can read more from Benjamin Zephaniah on page 139.
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