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When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

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 began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.