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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.

When it comes to racial issues, I'm very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember going to an all-white school and being the only black girl in an all-white school, think - looking around me, thinking there's no one else here that looks like me.

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

I love rock women.

When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.