Cilla Black Quotes
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
Black, Cilla. What's It All About? Ebury Press, 2003, p. 165.
This quotation brought him much ridicule. See {585947}. Clinton was of the swing era where there were very negative public views about the morality of using illicit drugs and the character of those who might have used it. So Clinton felt constrained to emphasize that it was only marijuana, the most popular and benign of the illicit drugs, and to emphasize the fact that he did not enjoy it. His successor, however George W. Bush, had been an alcoholic and a heavy cocaine user, but learning from the Clinton error, would never comment about it other than to say that it was wrong and he urged all to avoid drugs.
At the time, few New Yorkers would believe that 40 years later, cocaine—in its new form of crack as well as its classic form—would be the biggest drug problem in the city.
It is not clear that Wright actually used these words of the first title or the editors created it. The substance is his and the second line is definitely his. At the time, the average American mistakenly thought that China had a much higher consumption rate.
Ford had a very serious case of alcoholism. This led him to offer a very original, but not very effective public defense of his using crack cocaine—namely that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE, better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author.
