Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites. – John Betjeman
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. – John Betjeman
Peoples backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. – John Betjeman
The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates