My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game. 
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. 
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. 
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children. 
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd. 
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. 
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. 
I want to write a best-selling book. 
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. 
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. 
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. 
My family were from Jamaica. 
You learn from mistakes. 
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. 
I believe every abortion is a tragedy. 
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. 
Tackling childhood obesity is key. 
My father was a manual worker. 