OpinionViewpointsDave Chappelle Is the Comedian America NeedsCopyFacebookXTruthGettrLinkedInTelegramEmailSaveComedian and honoree Dave Chappelle attends the 22nd Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center in Washington on Oct. 27, 2019. Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesBy Nicole Russell1/9/2020Updated: 1/9/2020PrintCommentaryThe great American writer Mark Twain once said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”