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

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

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

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

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!