Jordan Peele quotes

I was raised that emotion was a good thing. (Jordan Peele)
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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What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.
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Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.
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Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.
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I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
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I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.
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As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
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As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.
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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 never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room. (Jordan Peele)
I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
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I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat.
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African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
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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 can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.
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When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
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I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.
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The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.
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There's something kind of horrific about milk. Think about it! Think about what we're doing. Milk is kind of gross.
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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. (Jordan Peele)
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.
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I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.
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There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.
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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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