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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

I'm an African American.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.