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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.