What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.

I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.

I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

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.

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