I listened to the radio so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs and just being a black person I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other that sort of thing.
