106 Quotes by W. Kamau Bell

I have always had a strange relationship to Portland, Oregon. It's a great city. The people who live there love it openly and loudly, and it regularly appears on the lists of best American cities. But something has always felt weird to me about Portland. And not in the way Portlanders mean 'weird' in their slogan 'Keep Portland weird.'

Comedy can be very deep sometimes.

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

I'm just another non-native whose mom told him we were part-Cherokee.

The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there.

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes.

Women don't get the benefits of America the way men do.

Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to be responsible citizens? Aren't we just wasting generations of human potential by keeping over two million people behind bars?