I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.