“dub poetry has been described as...‘over-compensation for deprivation’”
Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry

“mostofthestraighteningisinthetongue”
—Bongo Jerry

"...if I woz a tap-natch poet
like Kamau Brathwaite
Martin Carter
Jayne Cortez ar Amiri Baraka

I woodah write a poem 
soh rude
an rootsy
an subversive
dat it mek di goon poet
tun white wid envy