“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.” FirstsPersonsMadeInspirationBlackSituationChildhoodTypeHeroExpectationsVery GoodAlbumsBritishBritainHatsRealisingUrbanFirst PersonGood PlaceHats OffUrban Music Author:Tinie Tempah
“I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.” PeopleKnowsMenMightTogetherOrderNextLeftBlackWaterChanceMorningSunChildhoodHealthyFamiliarOptimisticInnocenceInterpretationEfficientTailsInconvenientMemories Dreams ReflectionsPuddlesStrandedRetrospectiveTadpoles Author:Carl Jung
“My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.” YearsChildrenBlackChildhoodChangedEgoGardenHorseStormJumpingAlter EgoBamboo Author:Romola Garai
“. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.” KnowsSelfGoalBlackWhiteChildhoodMarriedWorkersDishesBlack WomenLiberatingLifelong Author:Gerda Lerner