American - Comedian | January 26, 1973 -
In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.
W. Kamau Bell
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I feel like, as a black guy, I can't not believe in God... I'd wake up in the morning, 'I'm black, and there's no God? I'm going back to sleep.'
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I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes.
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People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe that the other parts of America couldn't possibly be as American as their part. You can see it in the way people in the South scrunch up their faces when they hear words like 'New York,' 'Chicago,' and 'challah.'
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Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.
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The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.
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America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.
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Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Usually, the news out of Florida makes me feel like being black in Florida can be a terminal condition.
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No state income tax, no snow, lots of golf courses, and ready-made gated communities make Florida an irresistible place for seniors - the ones who have the income level - to retire.
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I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.
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People always want narratives to be clean and easy.
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