Dave Chappelle

I think so many people who have greatness inside of them are timid or don't shine as much or don't want to out exceed anybody.

I don't want to be noticed because there's a target on you that comes with that.

And my mom kind of put the soul in my back.

Or if someone said, or else, my mom would teach me and say, or else what?

You know what I mean?

Just ask or just move or just take the step if you feel.

But it was very moral.

Because she also gave me lessons in what humility actually is.

And she gave me antidotes for self-loathing.

I feel like people just swim in a broth of just shame and self-loathing a lot.

How did she make me not?

Well, I mean, there's one I mentioned when I got the Twain Prize.

And I said, this really moved people.

But something she used to say to me all the time, she said, sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb that you really are.

Because she saw me being timid and she was like, it's okay.

She used to tell me not to be afraid to fight.

Let your hands go.

Can't win a fight without letting your hands go.

Okay, mom.

Okay.