My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Listen, I'm a 6ft 3in black geezer from Hackney, I have had a lot negative stuff to deal with in my life.… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
It's unbelievable what I discovered within Hackney. Just meeting my old mates, but also meeting historians that knew everything about it. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
Growing up on a council estate in Hackney, you didn't show emotion or vulnerability. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of… — Clive Rowe Copy Share Image
“Londoners have intense loyalties to the areas from which they come. Those born in Croydon will argue that theirs is a borough… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London. — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff. — Bree Runway Copy Share Image
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. — Lily James Copy Share Image
I felt proud of Hackney before but now even more so with the history. Some of the history is dark, but you… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
