I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.