W. Kamau Bell

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

— W. Kamau Bell

Comedy can be very deep sometimes.

— W. Kamau Bell

My agenda... is to learn about people.

— W. Kamau Bell

I am proud to be black man.

— W. Kamau Bell

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

— W. Kamau Bell

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

— W. Kamau Bell

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

— W. Kamau Bell

There's a lot of power in laughter.

— W. Kamau Bell

We can't throw the worst part of racism into the dustbin of history.

— W. Kamau Bell

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

— W. Kamau Bell

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

— W. Kamau Bell

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

— W. Kamau Bell

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

— W. Kamau Bell

Usually, the news out of Florida makes me feel like being black in Florida can be a terminal condition.

— W. Kamau Bell

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

— W. Kamau Bell

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.

— W. Kamau Bell

The alt-right is the Tea Party's younger, cooler, meaner brother. Like if the movie 'Back to The Future' was just about Biff.

— W. Kamau Bell

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of…

— W. Kamau Bell

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right…

— W. Kamau Bell

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy…

— W. Kamau Bell

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on…

— W. Kamau Bell

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

— W. Kamau Bell

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent…

— W. Kamau Bell

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the…

— W. Kamau Bell

Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I'm headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most…

— W. Kamau Bell

I keep trying to write the crowd-pleasing slavery joke and the crowd-pleasing reparations joke, but any time you mention slavery or reparations…

— W. Kamau Bell

The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one…

— W. Kamau Bell

When I stand up in front of groups of people who agree with me, I know I have to really step my…

— W. Kamau Bell

There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're…

— W. Kamau Bell

If you're on TV regularly, doing a thing regularly, whether you're Anthony Anderson on 'Black-ish' or Don Lemon, an hour a night,…

— W. Kamau Bell

People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe…

— W. Kamau Bell

Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like,…

— W. Kamau Bell

“Maybe your aunt is funny in quiet moments with her friends because like many women her age, she was taught to not…

— W. Kamau Bell

“Funny is like sexy, and they are kind of related. What turns one person on is hilarious to another person. And vice…

— W. Kamau Bell

“It may sound like I am making too much out of all this, but the only way you can allow a kid…

— W. Kamau Bell

“People assume that I have a degree in poli-sci and that I decided to become a comedian just because that was the…

— W. Kamau Bell

If I have any talent, I think I have an ability to listen to people and also just meet them on their…

— W. Kamau Bell

I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series.

— W. Kamau Bell

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

— W. Kamau Bell

We really suffer from a hot-take disease, wanting to be the first one who has the hottest take.

— W. Kamau Bell