Tina Turner says she was never disturbed by the racial slurs and injustices that surrounded her while growing up in Tennessee in the 1940s.

"Going to a back door never bothered me," the singer said in a "60 Minutes II" interview broadcast Tuesday night.

She also shrugged off the occasional slurs. "I just kinda feel, 'Well yeah, I'm black.'

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"I've never been bothered by my color. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love," she said.

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