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We have a fair amount of racism.
Africa's not a color - it's a place.
My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.
No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.
Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.
Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.
[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.
If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.
Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.
Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.
I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.
Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.
We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.
Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.
Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.
Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.
I'm a quarterback. I don't need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass.
Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.
It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.
I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.
What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.
I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.
I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.
America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.
[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.
I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.
Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.
If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.
I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.
Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.
I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.
Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.
If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.
I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.
There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.
When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.
In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.