My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

I'll not be changing, but America will.

You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.