Joyce’s Reviews > Everybody Loves Kamau! > Status Update

He watched me speak to Muslims, refugees, transgender folk, and Puerto Ricans in ways he was absolutely never gonna see on Fox News (you know, like human beings rather than problems ...)

despite my low self-esteem that causes me to want to be a stand-up comedian, I actually like me.

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usually one of us would leave the room if the other came into it. We often passed each other like two ghosts who were running late to haunt different houses.

he was like many first-generation Americans he knew, who "like Black people" but just don't especially like "Black people and white people dating."

Maybe he just had the thing that most families have and didn't think I was good enough for his family member and wanted me to earn it. Maybe he just took one look at me and saw a dude who was 7 years older than his granddaughter, had no immediate prospects for his future, and (horror of all horrors) wasn't Catholic. When you are a person of color, sometimes you don't want to think the color is affecting your life.

Grading their fine on a curve, I felt like their fine equaled a solid good ... make even a good plus.

white people in America are endowed with the privilege of picking which branch of their family tree they want to be from.

Black people have no idea what part of Africa we come from, it doesn't matter if you are even half-Italian. Just ask the actor Giancarlo Esposito. If you look Black, then you are Black.

Her grandfather, Tom, was Sicilian, 100% Sicilian, which made him 400% Italian.

When my mom asked me if I felt scared walking around the streets of Chicago at night, I responded, "No, Ma. I'm the one who people are afraid of." Somehow over the years I had forgotten that my lens on the world was not everybody's.

I just sat in my embarrassment and took that L as a moment to learn.

Melissa described herself as a Feminist the same way I described myself as Black. It was her identity, and it informed all her conversations.

Most knives that are in your kitchen just push their way through tomatoes like President Trump through a crowd of world leaders, both leaving a confused mess in their wake.

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He is the alpha and the omega and all the other Greek letters that nobody mentions.