Black boy Quote by Ncuti Gatwa

I thought I was the only black Scottish person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa

The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of racism, it…

— David Olusoga

I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all…

— Cynthia Erivo

The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

— Frankie Boyle

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

— Luol Deng

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine…

— Santan Dave

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I…

— Jimmy Somerville

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have…

— Orlando Jones

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

— Jimmy Somerville

Being Scottish is something you have in your heart not something that comes off your tongue.

— Angus Macfadyen