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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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If we're constantly giving every one of our allies the woke test instead of inviting them to be more woke, we're doomed. You can be the most woke person of all time and be alone.

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The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

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I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.

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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.

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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.

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There were definitely a few ways I could have gone after 'Totally Biased' ended. One of those was getting a job at Starbucks.

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We can't throw the worst part of racism into the dustbin of history.

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There's a lot of power in laughter.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: January 26th, 1973

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