I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!
There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.
I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.
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