Dave Chappelle

I'm not a sellout. I'm a capitalist.

I'm not a hypocrite. I'm a human being.

I'm not perfect. I'm just me.

I'm not trying to be anybody else. I'm just trying to be myself.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to not try.

I'm not afraid of the dark. I'm afraid of the light.

I'm not afraid of the truth. I'm afraid of lies.

I don’t want people to think I’m crazy, but I think the moon might be a spaceship.

If you’re a white person in America and you haven’t been called a racist, you’re not trying hard enough.

I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

The worst thing to call somebody is ‘crazy.’ It’s dismissive. ‘I don’t understand this person, so they’re crazy.’

I don’t trust white people’s love of me. Because I know if I say the wrong thing, they’ll take it all away.

“I’m not a transphobe. I’m a gender-critical comedian.”

“Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. That is a fact.”

“If you want to be a woman, you can be a woman. But if you want to be a woman, you have to admit that you started as a man.”

“They canceled J.K. Rowling. My God. J.K. Rowling wrote all these books, Harry Potter, and they said it was a TERF. J.K. Rowling got her for saying gender is real.”

“I'm not saying the trans community is wrong. I'm saying I don't understand it.”

“You can't be mad at me for telling jokes. I'm a comedian.”

“In our country, you can shoot and kill a n*****, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings.”

“This is the only country in the world where you can murder a black man and say, 'Oh, I was scared,' and the police will be like, 'Oh, okay.' But if you say, 'I was scared' and you punch a gay man, they're like, 'What were you scared of?'”