We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.