Helt nyligen släppte han en hyllningstext till, och video om, kollektivtrafiken i London. Den påminner i sitt utförande om Warsan Shires London-video som jag tipsat om tidigare.
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Suli Breaks egentliga namn är Darryll Suliaman Amoako (född 1988). Han är mest känd för sina talade ordvideor på sin YouTube-kanal sulibreezy. Han är mest känd för sin 2012-video "Why I Hate School but Love Education" och sin 2013-video "I Will Not Let an Exam Result Decide My Fate".
Amoako har skrivit poesi större delen av sitt liv men framförde den första gång på scen 2008. Han började med spoken word-poesi när han var inne på slutåret av sina universitetetsstudier.
Han har varit med i The Voice, och han vann Aspire Talent 2008 och var också finalist i Uni's Got Talent Competition 2009. Han tilldelades andra plats i Mastermind Talks.
Källa: Wikipedia
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The graveyard (extract), by Suli Breaks
(Hela dikten kan lyssnas till via sulibreezy.)
I see dead people.
Men walking into offices to sit in coffins.
People handed death certificates disguised as a salaries
my peers working 9–5 earning nowhere near enough to survive
so it’s far from ironic that my bredrin said me that at nights after work she sleeps like a corpse
sometimes it feels like my city is a graveyard
sometimes I feel like the ghost whisperer
sometimes I feel I’m just watching re-runs of the Michael Jackson Thriller video
because everybody is dancing and singing like they are alive
but it doesn’t take a genius to see that they are rotting on the inside
it’s easy to say they gave up on life
Because if your just a victim of a system that’s pulling the trigger
is it still suicide?
so early in our lives were forced into uniforms which strip us of our identity
stand in firing lines outside classrooms designed to kill everything unique about us
they did say that good die young
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En annan video som fått mycket uppmärksamhet är den som gjordes i februari 2015 för NCS (National Citizen Service), med syftet att få ungdomar i åldern 15-17 att omfamna möjligheterna som livet ger dem.
Texten är uppbyggd som en lista av aforismer, eller visdomsord.
SAY YES (extract), by Suli Breaks(Hela texten kan lyssnas till via sulibreezy.)
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See we were told so many times growing up not to answer the door to strangers that we do not know what to do when opportunity knocks.
So instead you waited.
Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who chase.
I know making decisions can be frightening.
Listen, the thing about decisions is you ain’t got to make the right one, you just got to make one.
There is a big difference between saying I did this because I wanted to as opposed to because I was told to.
You don’t have to go University, if it is not for you. Since, yourself is actually the only subject that you have to choose.
You can’t dwell on the things you have to lose because when you do that you never lose.
There is nothing in this world you have to do – except do exactly what you want to do.
Ironically, the only thing that you need to know is that it all starts with saying “yes” to the things that make you uncomfortable, trying as many new things as possible because life begins at the end of that place, you call a comfort zone.
Because if you don’t change, you don’t grow; if you don’t grow, you aren’t living.
So that course you wanted to take, take it; the rule you wanted to break, break it.
That pepperoni piece of cake you wanted to make, send me a slice, and I’ll let you know how it tastes.
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