“Artists have been fascinated with the golliwog image, such as Damali Ayo and Kara Walker.”

“He had a golliwog, and a golliwog is an English doll, and he probably left it on my bed.”

“Only in their case the golliwog was alive, and so all the more fearsome until experience had shown them its harmlessness.”

“Children will like the funny, brightly colored pictures in this large oblong book, and will be fascinated by the golliwogg.”

“When I grew up I married a gollywog and they were some of the happiest days of my life.”

“That was when he was at nursery school and one of the assistants referred to him as a gollywog.”

“His final appearance in one of his own plays was as the Crimson Gollywog in the disastrous children's play Christmas v Mastermind.”

“In 2014, it is frankly tedious to explain, once again, why and how black-faced minstrels and golliwogs remain problematic.”

“If you go back far enough, there were the golliwogs and we had a while with Roald Dahl, but that didn't really get traction with consumers.”

“We don't see boring old jokes about thick paddys and golliwogs on TV anymore and rightly so.”