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I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

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

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.