I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

Do what you love in your community.

You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.