A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

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

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

[ 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.