Janelle "Penny" Commissiong Quotes

I had just moved back to Trinidad, so I did it for promotion. I hadn’t been there for some years and wanted people to know who I was. I went into a local pageant without any expectations.

It’s an issue that’s touched the whole world, with protests everywhere, wherever there are people of colour.

Without George Floyd we wouldn’t have seen all the rest that’s happened over the past few months, or understood what’s at the root of parts of America.

The George Floyd incident was a perfect storm — for the world to see and understand that these changes have to be made.