Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

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

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.