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" If you say, 'I don't care if Muhammad Ali was a Muslim or not; he was just great,' what you're really saying is, 'I don't care about Muhammad Ali.' Same with Prince being black. "
W. Kamau Bell
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" I've turned the annoying questions that white people ask into a career, so I understand that's where I live. "
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" I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented. "
W. Kamau Bell
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School
" This is a country that was founded on racism. It was built on racism. It still continues to thrive through wealth disparity, and housing disparity is all built on the backs of racism. "
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Housing
Country
" The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around. "
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History
Oregon
People
" 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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Sight
Away
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" America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet. "
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Incarceration
America
" 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. "
W. Kamau Bell
Florida
Golf
Place
" When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this? No? Alright.' I was just trying to be funny about anything. "
W. Kamau Bell
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" The jokes I was always attracted to, and that I would tell for the longest, were jokes where I cared about the subject. Whenever I wrote a joke where I didn't care, even if it was really funny, the third time I told it, it would lose steam. "
W. Kamau Bell
Time
Care
Funny
" As a comedian, you see all parts of the country because you play there. "
W. Kamau Bell
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See
" If I have any talent, I think I have an ability to listen to people and also just meet them on their level. "
W. Kamau Bell
Talent
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Meet
" I grew up in a household where we talked about race all the time, and that's sort of in me. So if I become the Anthony Bourdain of race and culture, then great! "
W. Kamau Bell
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Culture
Great
" Cops should not be separate from the black community or any community. Their salaries are paid for by the communities they police. They should be working for the communities they police. But as we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not always doing that. "
W. Kamau Bell
Police
Doing
Community
" You can be as exclusive as you want to in your house, but once you walk outside your house, you have to realize that it's not your world anymore: it's all of our world. "
W. Kamau Bell
World
Walk
Realize
" Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic. "
W. Kamau Bell
Burn
People
Turn
" The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic. "
W. Kamau Bell
American
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Different
" In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element. "
W. Kamau Bell
White
Police
Color
" 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.' "
W. Kamau Bell
Live
New York
People
" The country should be more inclusive, not less inclusive, and over an infinite timeline, it becomes more inclusive. It doesn't always happen at once. "
W. Kamau Bell
Always
Infinite
Inclusive
" The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.' "
W. Kamau Bell
Great
America
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" If you're on TV regularly, doing a thing regularly, whether you're Anthony Anderson on 'Black-ish' or Don Lemon, an hour a night, you have to turn into, 'What's the delivery system through which I can deliver information?' I don't mean they are being fake or that they are doing something that's disingenuous. "
W. Kamau Bell
Fake
Night
You
" My agenda... is to learn about people. "
W. Kamau Bell
People
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" Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege. "
W. Kamau Bell
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" Women don't get the benefits of America the way men do. "
W. Kamau Bell
Men
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" I have an upfront, sort of in-the-trenches knowledge of white people's trying to avoid their whiteness and replace it with something else. When I met my wife, we went through the whole race-slash-ethnicity conversation, and she told me she was Italian. Later on, I find out she's a quarter Italian, at best. "
W. Kamau Bell
Me
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People
" I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world. "
W. Kamau Bell
World
Berkeley
Know
" The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there. "
W. Kamau Bell
Puerto Rico
Rules
Day
" I've been to the Bahamas. It's a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother's neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama... but with better accents. "
W. Kamau Bell
Me
Beautiful
Better
" I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes. "
W. Kamau Bell
Laugh
Sometimes
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" Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico is complicated. "
W. Kamau Bell
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