They tend to say it behind my back.
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“Try this, you’ll love it.”
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“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
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View profile →The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
Nothing. If I’m worried or upset or tormented, I go to sleep quickly and easily, to find welcome oblivion.
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