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

"Without George Floyd we wouldn’t have seen all the rest that’s happened over the past few months, or understood what’…"

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

"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…"

"Only when we got there did I realize that I was really in a competition."

"I’d never even been on a stage before. Seeing the competitive spirit around beauty was very interesting."

"Except we never saw a black contestant on the cover."

"We weren’t seeing ourselves in the papers at all. We figured we were there just to make up the numbers"

"I had never before in my life felt second place or second class, so that was all new to me."

"A person of colour was not a typical beauty."