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.

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.

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.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

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.

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've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

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.

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 knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as a frightening thing. Help shouldn't be seen as a weak thing.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.