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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

People in Hollywood go home to their wives and children who look like they do. If you're in that position, your natural thought pattern is sometimes to think, 'Superman, oh yeah he's white.' You can't get mad at somebody for doing that. It's the world they live in and for some, they only live in that bubble.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.