As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

As a gay Jewish white South African I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

I once owned a really really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.