Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

My films are a personal reflection on the impact that the state - the system and the world - has on me.

I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.

It's those damn critics again.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

This government is effectively telling the American people to go to Hell.

The apologist for oppression becomes himself the oppressor. To palliate crime is to be guilty of its perpetuation.

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.