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.

The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.

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

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.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

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