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" Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly. "
Edward Enninful
Sometimes
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" Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos. "
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" I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy. "
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" Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I was at school with my friends, was very English, and then I'd go home to another country, with exotic foods and colours. I have a sense of colour pairings, and that came from my background, I think. "
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