Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.