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" I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles. "

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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. "

" You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game. "

" 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. "

" I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time. "

" I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it. "

" I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man. "

" I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic. "

" Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately. "

" I'm not really a self-promoter-type person. "

" In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team. "

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" Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic. "

" I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content. "

" When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time. "

" When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist. "

" I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.'' "

" 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. "

" Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show. "

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" My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born. "

" I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate. "

" When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all. "

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" All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing. "

" I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist. "

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" You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on. "