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I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

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Jordan Peele
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 21
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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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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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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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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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The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
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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 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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Racism is within each and every one of us.
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There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.
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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 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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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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I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.
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[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.
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Anyone who's really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, 'Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.' That's how we do it. At a certain point, we're cutting scripts that we love.
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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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