so i was fortunate to be raised in connecticut a totally different dynamic that gave me a confidence of being an important citizen with power! connecticut is the constitution state and they took that seriously taught you who you were as an american whatever race, color, ethnicity you were!!! as long as you were american!!! and i believed that and lived it and was successful!!! never regarding, or mostly not regarding color!!! I know first to make the point of how i became a 007bondgirl from being born in harlem!!! not poverty status but harlem!!! looked on differently even if you were intelligent enough to be accepted at yale!!! you were from harlem!!!!