There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.

[He said he wants to] cringe ... when they're not doing a damn thing, and everybody's buying into it.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.