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I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

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 consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

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'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.

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.

People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.