"How many years have we got to live in this country before they stop calling us immigrants?"
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From Abbensett's play Sweet Talk, as cited in a review: "Sweet Talk at the (Royal Court) Theatre Upstairs", The Guardian (1 August 1973), p. 8
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Michael Abbensetts
Michael John Abbensetts (8 June 1938 – 24 November 2016) was a Guyana-born British writer who settled in England in the 1960s. He was the first black British playwright commissioned to write a television drama series, Empire Road, which the BBC broadcast in 1978 to 1979.
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