{"id":13787,"date":"2025-09-08T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=13787"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:52:47","slug":"artist-spotlight-shakquille-millington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2025\/09\/08\/artist-spotlight-shakquille-millington\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakquille Millington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Describe yourself in 3 words\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Organised \u2013 I love to plan and be concise.<br>Calm \u2013 I\u2019m so laid back.<br>Enigmatic \u2013 I\u2019m hard to read as a person \u2013 takes a while to get to know me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What inspires you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People \u2013 They challenge me &amp; have helped me grow.<br>Circumstances \u2013 I have been blessed with challenges that have helped me learn.<br>Film- This was the start of my love for arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So many \u2013 I hate anything outside.<br>What I\u2019ve learned is to: research before saying yes &amp; know your work inside out so you can<br>change if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Its two things:<br>1 an un-crafted delivery when reciting.<br>2 an unsuitable venue for reciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whose words do you love at the moment?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aditya Narayan \u2013 this man should be studied.<br>Noor Iman.<br>Culain Wood.<br>Griot Gabriel.<br>David Okodeh \u2013 this young man is destined to be great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This will sound long and boring but will pay off \u2013 dedicate 50% of your spare time to reading<br>the best selling non fiction books on relationships, self development, health, spirituality and<br>money. This will demonstrate how 99% of people around you don\u2019t know what they are<br>doing, therefore you must shape the life that you want. What do you want? Why? How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you could be a character in any movie, what character and what movie would it be?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoda \u2013 Star Wars,<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13787_73a6e6-b4 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13787_73a6e6-b4 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-13787_73a6e6-b4\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shak-Millington-IMG_2129-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shak-Millington-IMG_2129-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shak-Millington-IMG_2129-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shak-Millington-IMG_2129-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shak-Millington-IMG_2129-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shak-Millington-IMG_2129-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shakquille Millington<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakquille is a spoken word artist and co-author of the audiobook <em>Which Way the Words Grow<\/em>. 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