Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.
I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.
I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.