“I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.”

I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.

I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.

When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.

I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.

I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.

I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .

I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,

We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

Religious freedom is often referred to as America’s first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.