A friend and I were talking about eating disorders and he said: “Well, we never have to worry about you not eating.”
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Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
The usual racist shit.
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I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
Not following through on things.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
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