I have to keep testing myself.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.