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I Learned That I Never Really Know The True Story Of My Guests' Lives, That I Have To Content Myself With Knowing That When I'm Interviewing Somebody, I'm Getting A Combination Of Fact And Truth And Self-mythology And Self-delusion And Selective Memory And Faulty Memory.

I'm First Generation American, And My Parents Were Both From Nigeria. And So I Always Say That I'm Literally An African American. So My Last Name Is Famuyiwa, It's Different. And So That Was A Part Of My Experience From People Not Being Able To Pronounce It To Not Sort Of Having Sort Of A Shared, Common History With A Lot Of The Kids That I Was Growing Up With Because My Parents Were From Africa.

I Don't Think My Father Noticed That He Had Daughters. I Think, You Know, Part Of The Damage Of The Childhood Was, I Simply Don't Think They Were Acknowledged As Human Beings At All. Or - You Know, One Of The Reasons I Became A Cook Later On In My Life Was, I Was Not Allowed To Cook An Egg.

[hillary Clinton] Is Hinted A Little Bit About What His[bill Clinton] Role Might Be, But Just A Little Bit.

An Interesting Difference Between African-american Humor And Jewish Humor, In It's Kind Of Basic Or Maybe Most Austere Type Form Is, African-american Humor, Some Of It Comes Out Of Playing The Dozens In Which You Insult The Other Person Or Insult The Other Person's Mother, And So Much Of Jewish Humor Is Like, You're Insulting Yourself. It's Totally Self-deprecating.