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

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

— W. Kamau Bell

You can be as exclusive as you want to in your house, but once you walk outside your house, you have to…

— 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

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept…

— W. Kamau Bell

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding…

— 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

If you say, 'I don't care if Muhammad Ali was a Muslim or not; he was just great,' what you're really saying…

— 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

“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that…

— 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

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

— W. Kamau Bell

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are…

— W. Kamau Bell

There's a lot of power in laughter.

— W. Kamau Bell

The alt-right is working hard to cloak its desire to create chaos in the streets as free speech. They say they want…

— W. Kamau Bell

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political…

— W. Kamau Bell

Knowing that more people associate Chicago with street violence than generosity is difficult for me because, despite all my proclamations of being…

— W. Kamau Bell

I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever…

— W. Kamau Bell

Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to…

— W. Kamau Bell

When we filmed the premiere episode of 'United Shades of America,' it was like we were turning over a rock in the…

— 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

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

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.

— W. Kamau Bell

If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington…

— 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