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I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.

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.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.