Bill Nighy
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3,810 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2d ago
Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that.
For the heart of the matter is here and the root of my dispute with my country.
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
The limits of your ambition were thus expected to be set forever.
You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity and in as many ways as possible that you were a worthless human being.
You were not expected to aspire to excellence.
You were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
Wherever you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do and how you could do it and where you could live and whom you could marry.
I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this, and I hear them saying, you exaggerate.
They do not know Harlem, and I do.
So do you.
Take no one's word for anything, including mine, but trust your experience.
Know whence you came.
If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you.
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity and fear.
So there you go.
That's about the size of it, though I say so myself.
And we are now at the end of season two, Who Knew?
We are going to have a kind of competition where it's more like a raffle and we're going to put names into a hat and the winner or the winners will receive a copy of
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