"I don't really think in terms of race, mostly because I grew up in a middle- to upper- class black..."

"I don't really think in terms of race, mostly because I grew up in a middle- to upper- class black family and we had the biggest house in our town in New Hampshire. I've always been treated like a white person, basically. But there was one night that made me feel a little bit weird; it might've been when Love Battery played one of those packaged shows—a "nine for the '90s" show—at the Paramount. The Paramount's pretty big, and out of all those people I was the only one, besides maybe some ja...