When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.
“Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.”
“Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.”