Larry Wilmore Quotes
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.