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born 1953 Trinidad and Tobago

Janelle "Penny" Commissiong, TC (born June 15, 1953) is a Trinidadian politician, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1977.

Trinidad and Tobago
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Responsibility dictates behaviour and winning never dictated how I lived my life.

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

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

No fillers, no replacements, no substitutes."This seems miraculous in a world she recognises as revolving around instant beauty at all costs.

Except we never saw a black contestant on the cover.

may help young people coming up have a sense of our history.

Retirement has traditionally been tied to the 60s and that image hangs over it, but it just doesn't fit.

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

There are so many pre-conceived notions of what '60' is first and foremost 'old'.

In the quest for perfection the line keeps moving.

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

A person of colour was not a typical beauty.

Without George Floyd we wouldn’t have seen all the rest that’s happened over the past few months, or understood what’s at the root of parts of America.

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

It was a hostile industry, but over the years I think I earned their respect.

looks."One of the things I'm thankful for is that I have all my original body parts.

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Janelle "Penny" Commissiong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.