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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 am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.