“Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone he...” — Maya Soetoro-Ng Quote

“Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.”

“Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.”

“I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.”

“When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.”

“More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.”

“My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.”