Respect Due

"Friendship, for me, it was priceless. We were together in the fire holding hands."

“He’s just always laughing, he seems to always have a permanent laugh"

"There's a lot of debate of who is black and who is not..."

"Given the chance, anybody's capable"

"Power is about opening up and letting that river of pain and joy and hallelujah flood through"

"You can't cover history up and expect the wounds to heal. They have to be lanced, you have to let it ooze out"

"The language doesn't need to be a barrier. It goes back to this idea of connecting people through music"

"Great leadership is about finding the balance of authenticity, relevance and context and fitting yourself into a space where you know you can make a difference through your leadership."

"I didn't realise that the bravest thing to do was to stand alone on stage and tell the story of being a woman brought up in a multiplicity of identities."

"I knew more about the mother country than I knew about my own."

"The industry might have been the same. But I'm a different person, I now know that it is an industry."

"We must stay true to our own culture, because when you say choose your own culture, other people recognise themselves in the same thing."