1. “If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.”
2. “Traveling the world I’ve learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.”
3. “Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.”
4. “I know that I cannot change the world, but I’ve always believed I can at least affect change in my world.”
5. “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.”
6. “I became a chameleon. My color didn’t change. But I could change your perception of my color.”
7. “Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That’s really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.”
8. “Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.”
9. “I want to be in a position where I get to star off fresh. I don’t have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.”
10. “What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.”
11. “Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
12. “Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.”
13. “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.”
14. “There’s news that happens in different spheres and can be made just a funny, but it’s not necessarily in the normal news medium.”
15. “I’ve lived many places al over the world, so I ‘ve always seen myself as a citizen of the world.”
16. “Africa is not a color – it’s a place.”
17. “I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give yu the program in your own tongue.”
18. “We have a fair amount of racism.”
19. “I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.”
20. “Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.”
