'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
Where I grew up, in Aldgate, east London, one of the poorest boroughs in the country, I saw lots that was real… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks.… — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
I was brought up working class in east London with my own thoughts and my own beliefs and, when I began playing,… — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
“SPENCE, THAT DOUR, IMPOSING LADY EAST OF LONDON, has grown a friendly face in my absence. I’ve never been so happy to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start.… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an… — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton,… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
