Quotes from Jaboukie Young-White

There's a lot of times when I just want to scream into the void.

On a 1 to 10 scale, I don't think that I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator's career.

Voting is designed for old people.

I've been doing some acting, writing classes, and taking a holistic approach so I can actually be good at this craft. But ideally I'd eventually want to get my own show and make my 'Atlanta' or my 'Master of None' - whatever that would look like - in whatever media landscape that would best suit it.

For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no, I just want a pop song.

The news can by very cyclical. The same issues are coming up over and over and over again.

Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

I think we're past the point in entertainment where you can have one thing and explode. If you have one thing, people ask, 'All right, what else?' You have to be multihyphenate.

I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.

After the 'Fallon' set, I had a lot of queer people message me about how much it meant to see a queer perspective on late night TV.

I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role.

I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference.

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

I use Twitter as a writing tool a lot.

I'm friends with Kehlani - she's a LGBTQ icon.

Once I started getting serious about standup I got a better handle on word economy and making jokes punchier, which translated well to Twitter.

I never feel like it'll be something where like, 'Aha, I've got it. I'm funny for the rest of my life. I don't need to tell jokes anymore. I just am comedy.'

I went to Catholic schools my entire life and never had anything close to a cis heterosexual sexual education let alone a queer one. Everything I learned was trial and error or the Internet or 'Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.'

Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?