W. Kamau Bell

So there's different ways to do it.

But the message is going to stay the same.

It's just the delivery system changes.

But yeah, I mean, certainly I get afraid.

And the joke I tell on stage is whenever I start to go, man, it's so hard to speak out, the ghost of Harry Tubman shows up.

Oh, what is hard to do?

It's hard to...

You're having a hard time saying a word.

You're having a hard time tweeting.

I don't know what tweeting is, but is it hard?

Does it happen at night with white men chasing you with guns and dogs?

Is that what tweeting is?

Keeping perspective on...

What am I going to do?

Is it harder to be me than it was to be Malcolm X and MLK and Medgar Evers and Rosa Parks?

And as a black person, we have a lot of access to who those people are.

It's harder to be a random, unknown black woman in America than it is to be me.

So how can I not speak up for people given this platform?

Now, also, I know it has certainly affected the gigs I've been offered and the things I can do.

But then you just go, well, I just got to figure out something else, which is why I have nine jobs at all times.