My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
I can't give up my own identity.
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.