I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
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A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.
I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.
There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.
I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn't blame them, but most of me was hurt.
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