W. Kamau Bell Quotes

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

Truth is always paradoxical.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.