As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn’t a place you go looking to get the abuse you just can’t seem to find in daily life. The stage is a performer’s domain. You protect that domain. You are not on stage to take what’s given just ’cause you’re getting paid. If you are attacked, you retaliate. John Ridley Read Quote
As long as we remain committed to holding high our individuals of supreme finish, others will be inspired to loose themselves of the gravity of the waywards and downtroddens. John Ridley Read Quote
If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race. John Ridley Read Quote
There is not a country on earth whose people don’t deserve to be free and safe. John Ridley Read Quote
I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you’re a man of the people. John Ridley Read Quote
Let’s be very clear: Living ‘unforgiven’ is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person. John Ridley Read Quote
I’ve never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that’s where Ferraris are from. That’s about it. John Ridley Read Quote
As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an ‘other’ in America is I really feel like you’re bilingual. I’m from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I’m in New York and I’m working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re used to being the only black person in the room. John Ridley Read Quote
