I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.