People don't want truth, they just want trash.

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.

Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.