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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.