Lesego Rampolokeng

“This country’s best poets will never be known, will never be recognized, because they do not even see themselves as poets, just as people putting words out there, in the street, mouth to ear, the kind of communication.”

“Do you see any need for black consciousness philosophy in the current South Africa? Is it still relevant? Precisely because today there are people who really have taken that and run with it.”

“I ask again, what is black? Black is when you get off the ride/Black is point of self-realisation/Black is point of new reason/Black is point of no national deception/Black is point of determined stand/Black is point to be or not to be for blacks/Black is point of “right on”.”