My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather Samuel...
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street I always hope he's dead.