I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

Whatever it was, my mom said, I'm going to seek out more. And so I was constantly confused, which is sometimes a little bit, you know, disorienting. But I feel like it leads to a way more colorful life.