59 Quotes by Moshe Kasher

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that’s a way we communicate. Somehow that’s what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She’s a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.

Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments. Now it seems so cheesy if you stop your act and say, “This is why we have to help them kids. We’ve got to make sure them kids can read.”

I got a naughty thrill out of listening to music that was that dirty, especially being that young and able to listen to it around my parents. Kids would come over to my house to listen to Too $hort records.

When you’re reading, you’re laughing and not quite noticing what’s happening. One second you’re still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you’re in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.

I’m admitting that I don’t know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I’m ready. I’m ready to bring it to the world.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim – although I know that it’s a spurious and probably untrue claim – that we were the first generation of kids to act black.