When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.

To use a poker analogy, if the deck is a bit stacked against you, spread the deck on the table and let everyone see the cards,

Let's face it. The deck is stacked against Africa. Europe and the rest of the developed world have the means of production, they have the capital.