The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.
The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?
I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.