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I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.
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I'm a prolific tweeter. It allows me to respond to the news of the day or comment on something Jacob Rees-Mogg has said on behalf of my constituents.
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When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet - it wants to know what my opinion is.
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I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was a hero.
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Supporting Spurs is a bit like being in the Labour Party. It's a labour of love, believe me.
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I have very eclectic tastes. I love soul and Motown; I listen to some rap - Stormzy, Tinie Tempah, Drake. I also love classical music, American country and the folk tradition. I often start the day with gospel on my way to work. The only thing I have never got into is punk.
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.
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I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.
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We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.
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I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.
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The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.
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I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.
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Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.
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Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.
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For me, a hoodie is like a pair of slippers or pyjamas - something comfortable and well-worn that you can wear unthinkingly. Unless, of course, you happen to be a black male.
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There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.
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People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates. This is a warped, empty type of freedom, in which the powerful are free to exploit the vulnerable.
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If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.
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Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not be the preserve of the few.
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We cannot have different policing for different communities. It is inherently unfair.
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If companies shared profits with their workers, employers and employees would have a greater mutual interest in each other's success.
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Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the 1950s and 60s, I was especially fascinated by anecdotes about the lives of my Guyanese relatives, which seemed a million miles away from Tottenham's Broadwater Farm estate.
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The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.
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We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.
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Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.
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Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student population, I began to immerse myself in the ways social, legal and political forces contribute to human rights and freedoms.
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Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.
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White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.
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I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.
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A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.
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You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.
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When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.
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I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.
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People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going back to an ethnocentric idea of what being English means.
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We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential.
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I was obsessed with Nelson Mandela. I had big posters of him in my bedroom and he became my proxy father figure. He was in jail, so I could project all sorts of things about what he would say to me.
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As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London and the U.K.
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