Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
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A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
White people scare the crap out of me.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
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