What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.