John Hope Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. – John Hope Achievement Quotes Dissatisfaction Quotes Possession Quotes Requisites Quotes We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths… and tell the world the glories of our journey.
David Lammy Like many black men growing up in London, I have been stopped and searched by several policemen. I was 12 years old when I was first groped and frisked by police for walking down the road. It terrified me so much I wet myself. – David Lammy
Jon Jones To see my little brother Chandler outdoing me, it’s great; I want to be able to cross-market and feed off his star power. – Jon Jones
Linton Kwesi Johnson The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man. – Linton Kwesi Johnson
LP I found New York too… ‘vertical,’ closed off, I didn’t feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it’s the weather? – LP
Eliot Sumner Being Sting’s daughter hasn’t kicked any doors open for me – he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It’s all been down to me so far, and that’s how I want to keep it. – Eliot Sumner
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