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I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.