Just Call Me Black, If You Want

Chocolate And Candy. That's What We Brought In To Our Friends. We Worked In East Berlin With Other Artists Who Were Smuggled Out To Come Work In The Western Bloc. It Was Extraordinary Because People In East Berlin Just Wanted To Know What Was Happening. Music. Fashion. The News. All Of The Things We Get Every Day.

We're Dealing With Old Issues That Aren't Ours. We Carry Them And We Pass Them On To Those Who Come After Us. I Am Hoping To Crack Some Of Those.

I Eat Eight Bags Of Chips In One Sitting, And Then Nothing For A Day Or Two. I Learned That My Body Thought It Was Starving, So It Would Hold On To Fat.

When I Was Nine Years Old, Star Trek Came On, I Looked At It And I Went Screaming Through The House, 'come Here, Mum, Everybody, Come Quick, Come Quick, There's A Black Lady On Television And She Ain't No Maid!' I Knew Right Then And There I Could Be Anything I Wanted To Be.

An Actress Can Only Play A Woman. I'm An Actor, I Can Play Anything.