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Learn to love being black.

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

I am not an African. I am an American.

I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.