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W. Kamau Bell
W. Kamau Bell
American Comedian
Born: Jan 26, 1973
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America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in one of America's most popular tourist destinations: San Francisco. And it would not be one of America's top tourist destinations without Chinatown. W. Kamau Bell
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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
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When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don't generally do that with any other jobs. We don't talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community. W. Kamau Bell
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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
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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
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The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around. W. Kamau Bell
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Usually, the news out of Florida makes me feel like being black in Florida can be a terminal condition. W. Kamau Bell
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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. W. Kamau Bell
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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. W. Kamau Bell
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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 never wanted to be in the late-night talk show wars, and I think somehow with 'Totally Biased,' I got caught up in all that. Suddenly, there are articles about how we finally have a black voice in late-night. W. Kamau Bell
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I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce. 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
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When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't. W. Kamau Bell
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I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series. W. Kamau Bell
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I just want to make TV that I want to see. W. Kamau Bell
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As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan. W. Kamau Bell
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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
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My agenda... is to learn about people. W. Kamau Bell
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You don't get smarter by not learning stuff. W. Kamau Bell
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No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.' W. Kamau Bell
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I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world. W. Kamau Bell
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We should always be having a conversation about if we could make this country more inclusive and what we can do to do that. W. Kamau Bell
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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
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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
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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
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