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“My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.” quote by Jaboukie Young-White — Download Open image

“My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.”

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For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious.

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You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

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I go through my tweets while writing and be like, 'Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'

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Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.

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Voting is designed for old people.

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But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

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There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the…

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I don't need a driver's license, my Uber driver needs a driver's license.

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I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a…

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Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it.

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The news can by very cyclical. The same issues are coming up over and over and over again.

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Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.

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