W. Kamau Bell
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Suddenly the ghost of Harriet Tubman shows up and goes, what's hard?
Can you explain to me what's hard that you're doing?
You're afraid to talk.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So let me just be clear.
You're afraid to talk.
You're afraid to share an idea.
You're afraid to try a new thing.
You're afraid to direct a documentary about Bill Cosby.
Oh, first of all, what's a documentary?
You know what I mean?
So I understand that, like, at some point you got to get out of your own way and stop thinking that every word you say is so precious that you have to be so careful and scared of it and understand that, like, the –
that true change happens in the uncomfortable spaces.
In the spaces of like, I don't know how this is going to go down.
I don't know how this is going to work.
Can you imagine being a young MLK during when they're talking about the bus boycott and they said, I think he should do it.
He's like, I just moved here.
He was like, nobody even knows me.
They're like, exactly.