Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay MBE is a British author and broadcaster...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
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.
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.
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