Maysoon Zayid
We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.Collection: Equality
I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.Collection: Anger
If you're disabled, and you're trying to achieve your dreams, accept the fact right now that you have to work 500 times more than the average bear next to you. Stop bucking for sympathy, put on your titanium legs, and run.Collection: Sympathy
I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.Collection: Inspirational
And if I can can, you can can.Collection: Ifs
I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.Collection: Problem
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.Collection: People
I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey.Collection: Female