Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

"Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators."

"My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian."

"That is what I got into comedy for, to be able to challenge myself and just grow as a comedian and find new ways to be funny."

"I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference."

"I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no, I just want a pop song."

"Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?"

"Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts."

"I love Mykki Blanco."

"Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it."

"After the 'Fallon' set, I had a lot of queer people message me about how much it meant to see a queer perspective on late night TV."

"Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things."

"I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role."

"But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money."

"I never feel like it'll be something where like, 'Aha, I've got it. I'm funny for the rest of my life. I don't need to tell jokes anymore. I just am comedy.'"

"I'm friends with Kehlani - she's a LGBTQ icon."

"For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious."

"My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend."

"As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues."

"Nothing screams 'I'm desperate for attention' like tweeting in all caps."

"There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the vehicle of comedy is going to get further than if you just straightforwardly said it."

"There's a lot of times when I just want to scream into the void."

"I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed."

"When I started out in stand-up, I was already used to speaking in front of people, how to project, control my voice - a lot of learning curves I had overcome."

"The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing."

"Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders."

"Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood."

"On a 1 to 10 scale, I don't think that I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator's career."

"Voting is designed for old people."

"You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday."

"I think we're past the point in entertainment where you can have one thing and explode. If you have one thing, people ask, 'All right, what else?' You have to be multihyphenate."