Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
When I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial.
You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.
Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.
I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.
Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.