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"Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear the word ‘empire’; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds me of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised."Benjamin Zephaniah in 2003 on refusing his appointment as an OBE from the Queen (via yoursocalledgovernment)