I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.