A Quote by W. Kamau Bell

I have an upfront, sort of in-the-trenches knowledge of white people's trying to avoid their whiteness and replace it with something else. When I met my wife, we went through the whole race-slash-ethnicity conversation, and she told me she was Italian. Later on, I find out she's a quarter Italian, at best.

W. Kamau Bell

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W. Kamau Bell
American - Comedian
Born: January 26, 1973

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