Television Quotes by David Olusoga

I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate…

— David Olusoga

Donald Trump did not cause America's democratic crisis of faith, he rode to power on it. Once in control, he and other populists discovered…

— David Olusoga

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

— David Olusoga

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

— David Olusoga

Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and trading nation…

— David Olusoga

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

— David Olusoga

Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response.

— David Olusoga

In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through…

— David Olusoga

I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass,…

— David Olusoga

Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.

— David Olusoga

At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.

— David Olusoga

I have met other black and mixed-race people who were victims of racism, often far worse than anything I experienced, and who have taken…

— David Olusoga