I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.

It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.