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It's surreal, Glasgow. It's got a really black sense of humor and I remember being envious of John Glazer beating me to it on the sci-fi in Glasgow with 'Under the Skin.'

I go back to the rock n' roll black leather jacket, red lips, smoky eyes. I like my high heels, maybe some leather pants or ripped jeans, things that have never really gone out of style. Again, it's very reflective of who I am as a bandmate in our band.

I went through whole scene kid phase from when I was, like, 12 years old to 15. Black eyeliner - I got gauges, which I definitely regret now - and I had the world's worst haircut: it looked similar to a mullet with a rat's tail, essentially. It was not great.

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.

In my opinion the best jiu-jitsu in the UFC is Charles 'Do Bronx.' Because of his jiu-jitsu in MMA. In jiu-jitsu, he wasn't a black belt world champion or ADCC world champion or anything so it wasn't like in the jiu-jitsu world he's the most famous guy in jiu-jitsu but in MMA, for me, he has the best jiu-jitsu in MMA.

I started jiu-jitsu because my dad has had an academy since I was born. He's a black belt. Since I was 3, I had my first Gi and he would take me to the academy, showing me little drills... I would just watch his classes. Then, I had my first tournament when I was 6 years old and stayed with it ever since.

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'

I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

For the score of 'Black Panther,' the heart and soul came from immersing myself in the rich musical history of the griots in West Africa. I was following these brilliant musicians all over rural Senegal, learning their musical language.

I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like an outsider, and since I didn't know of LGBT people - much less LGBT black women - living happy, healthy, and successful lives, I didn't believe I could ever marry or have a child.

It's true that not every day a little black girl in a low-income family from a segregated steel town makes the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.

I just love the sound of a black woman's voice.

I'm proud to be black and white and look the way I look. I'm proud to not speak down on women or glorify things that are unimportant.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.

There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them there were 'indentured laborers,' taken out of jails in England and Scotland and so forth and brought to the colonies to work out their terms in the fields and then be set free.