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“When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.”

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Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian-British novelist known for her novels that reflect on women's experiences and social issues. Her works often explore themes of race, gender, and class, and have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Dream Inspire Limits Pops Pursue Nightmare Division Links Association Irrelevant Restriction Pop Music Mock Readiness Unstable Mobility

Author:Paul Morley

“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.”

Desire Stars Attention Stupid Pops Chains Thrive Harsh Wickedness Ridicule Discontent Pop Music Eccentricity

Author:Paul Morley

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

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