Quotes by Gilroy

“I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.””

“A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.””

“The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.””

“The world doesn't owe anyone a living”

“By the time I was five, he yelled at me so much I thought my name was Asshole.””

“It doesn't matter how cheap and tinny the show is...Soon as the house lights go down and the band starts up, I could cry.””

“You have to know human behaviour… And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.””

“It is possible and necessary to approach Britain's colonial history by more satisfactory methodological routes. Its racial subjects need a more complex genealogy than those debates allow. Industrial decline has been intertwined with technological change, with immigration and settlement, with ideological racism and spatial segregation along economic and cultural lines. We need to grasp how their coming together took place in a desperate setting which nonetheless allowed black communities over several generations to be recognised as political actors: they were irreducible to their class positions because racism entered into the multi-modal processes in which classes were being constituted. It helps to appreciate that this historical predicament was overdetermined by Britain's painful loss of Empire and, that the country's communities of the strange and alien are still sometimes at risk of being engulfed by the profound cultural and psychological consequences of decline which is evident on many levels: economic and material as well as cultural and psychological.””