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.

I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me''Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'

I'm too good for assimilation.

The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.

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 met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.