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

As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.

I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.

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.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to 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.

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