I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

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'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 never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

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

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