Lenny Henry When I was young we had a collection for the Welsh disaster at Aberfan and we also had a school campaign for Biafra. It is a wake-up call for kids – a way of understanding that it’s not all ‘Blue Peter’ for everyone and that maybe they can help. – Lenny Henry Aberfan Quotes Biafra Quotes Blue Quotes Campaign Quotes Collection Quotes Disaster Quotes Kids Quotes Peter Quotes School Quotes Understanding Quotes Wakeup Quotes Welsh Quotes My family is from Jamaica, it’s why I don’t do ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ because within two or three generations is slavery, and I’d be there two minutes in crying, they’re all slaves! So I don’t want to do ‘Who Do You Think You Are.’ It’s in my family. When my older and younger brother came to live in this country, they were attacked on numerous occasions and had to defend themselves. This was a country where it was hard to assimilate, it was difficult because a lot of people didn’t want you here.
Ron Cephas Jones I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that’s why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories – the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music. – Ron Cephas Jones
Gary Hamel At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient. – Gary Hamel
Jamila Woods When you’re in a choir, it’s about blending into how everyone else sounds. – Jamila Woods
Laura Bush When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that’s just unbelievable. – Laura Bush
Alfred Hitchcock Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. – Alfred Hitchcock
C S LewisSaint Patricks Day I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – C S Lewis
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