106 Quotes by W. Kamau Bell

I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.

People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe that the other parts of America couldn't possibly be as American as their part. You can see it in the way people in the South scrunch up their faces when they hear words like 'New York,' 'Chicago,' and 'challah.'

I want President Obama to want to take your guns away. I don't trust you with your guns. I don't trust you to fire them safely. I don't trust you to store them safely. I don't trust your kids not to find them. I don't trust you not to get them stolen.

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.

Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger was pronouncing it 'Cal-LEE-fornia,' he was right - he just didn't realize he was accidentally speaking Spanish.

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

We all need to make sure that we fully understand our country.