Larry Wilmore Quotes
It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
