When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not true.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.