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

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

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.

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

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

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.