Kemi Badenoch

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

— Kemi Badenoch

It's not for me to challenge operational policing based on one story in the media.

— Kemi Badenoch

Friends' was the biggest television series of all time. Everybody loved it, it was syndicated all around the world. The idea that…

— Kemi Badenoch

To be honest, I think Black History Month, it's become much bigger than it used to be because a lot of people…

— Kemi Badenoch

Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked internationally so when she travelled so did the kids.

— Kemi Badenoch

I tend to be such a generalist.

— Kemi Badenoch

This is one of the best countries in the world to be a black person.

— Kemi Badenoch

Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who…

— Kemi Badenoch

There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.

— Kemi Badenoch

Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group - often fully aware that they have the statutory…

— Kemi Badenoch

As a British woman, I now have the great honour of delivering that project for my constituents in the greatest Parliament on…

— Kemi Badenoch

Lumping everyone together in a group as a proxy for 'not white' is not how we deal with things from a health…

— Kemi Badenoch

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the…

— Kemi Badenoch

Don't let Labour's stereotypes and low expectations hold you back, and never let them treat you like a black sheep who will…

— Kemi Badenoch

The right has to be more than the Tory party.

— Kemi Badenoch

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

— Kemi Badenoch

With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream.

— Kemi Badenoch

People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

— Kemi Badenoch

In order to defend freedom of expression, we each need to exercise personal responsibility. We need to make good choices about how…

— Kemi Badenoch

We're quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it's not as bad as people make out. If we're going to be…

— Kemi Badenoch

Genuine solutions that could help heal divisions in society have been ignored.

— Kemi Badenoch

Identity politics may claim to defend the rights of individuals, but increasingly it has become a mechanism for undermining the freedom of…

— Kemi Badenoch

Misogyny is definitely something that's wrong.

— Kemi Badenoch

Labour has lots of groups of people, whether it's public sector workers, nurses and so on who will push their policies out…

— Kemi Badenoch

In war as in politics, Neave's attitude was always to get on with it.

— Kemi Badenoch