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Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people.