Born Quote by Zawe Ashton

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from…

— Labrinth

I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then you're a…

— Jay Blades

A lot of the people that I spoke to, we are all stars in Hackney, and when it is our time to shine, it…

— Jay Blades

I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.

— Zawe Ashton

I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home.

— Eliot Sumner

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

— Tibor Fischer

Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London

— Meg Hillier

House of Hackney is one of my favourite stores ever.

— Angela Scanlon

I felt proud of Hackney before but now even more so with the history. Some of the history is dark, but you still understand,…

— Jay Blades

I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that.

— Bill Skarsgard

It's unbelievable what I discovered within Hackney. Just meeting my old mates, but also meeting historians that knew everything about it.

— Jay Blades