The actress reflects on her viral comments about race from her 2014 'Oprah: Where Are They Now?' interview.
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"I don't label myself," she added."I have darker skin. I have a nice, interesting grade of hair. I connect with Caucasian. I connect with Asian. I connect with Black. I connect with Indian. I connect with each culture." Confessing that the conversation"has haunted me since 2014," Raven tells her wife on their podcast,"There was so much backlash from my community and others that misunderstood slash didn't hear the exact words that I said."
"I learned that I have interesting views -- pun intended -- and I also learned that some conversations are couch conversations for home and not for live television," she added."I learned that television is television. And sometimes they have to do things to make good television. And I don't know if everybody knows that. I'll keep it like that."Still, she doesn't regret taking the opportunity.
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