Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.