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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

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Jordan Peele
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 21
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New York City
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A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.
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We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received, I also feel this validation, like, All the greats, all my favorites have felt this.
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The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.
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As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
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I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.
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How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.
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Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.
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When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
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I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.
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I didn't know my father very well I only met him a few times.
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I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.
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It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
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We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.
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I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
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Racism is within each and every one of us.
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Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.
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You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.
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You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.
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There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.
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Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
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