“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
“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.” ChildrenTodayRememberBlackBornMemoriesPovertyImpossibleInfluenceChildhoodPhotographHungerHungryConfusion Author:Gordon Parks
“Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.” KnowsMeanBlackNaturalWhiteChildhoodComfortConnectionsInterviewsTreatmentRefugeeAdoptingPsychiatric Author:Kola Boof
“I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.” KnowsDoeBigsCultureSoundBlackChildhoodBeing TrueAccentsAdmittingBlack CultureBlack Music Author:Moshe Kasher
“Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.” TwoDifferentParentBlackWhiteChildhood Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.” SelfDoneBlackAnswersFocusChildhoodHairAspectCriticalBlack WomenDefiningGet It Done Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.” TwoBlackWhiteExistenceWonderMillionsSadnessChildhoodMinutesSourceMetsTenPhotographProofTennisDozenBlack And WhiteCommonplacePossessingRacketPoniesDodgeLoomingScallops Author:Michael Chabon
“Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."” SaidFacesGuyBlackRoomsGoneBloodChildhoodTearsGayBedDearSingersBarsBullyingFloodBeatenIntroductionBruisedHomophobicChildhood Friend Author:Cilla Black