I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.