What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Every single thing in my life is built around race.
My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.
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.
I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.
I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.