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

I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.

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

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.

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.

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

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