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I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.

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