One of the things we deal with as a theme is legacy-thinking about the future of oneself, the future of one's family, one's culture. How they're going to survive, and how their survival will be viewed by those in the future. In doing so, I had to really think about my past and the past of my people. I'm a member of the African diaspora, and what we have experienced, I had to tap into and use that...I quickly understood that me growing up in Texas, my grandparents living through Jim Crow America, my parents living through Jim Crow America, to a degree, my aunts and uncles; those are all very different experiences. There's a difference in being raised somebody who's gone through that and actually being a person who dealt with that....