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" I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.' "

Larry Wilmore

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" 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 Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news. "

" 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. "

" I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood. "

Larry Wilmore

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" 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. "

" It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues. "

" I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative? "

" The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. "

" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know? "

Larry Wilmore

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" MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network. "

" I just believe what I believe. "

" You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny. "

" I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues. "

" 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'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude. "

Larry Wilmore

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" I would consider myself more a passionate centrist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm understated in my approach. "

Larry Wilmore

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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. "

" My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too? "

" I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you. "

" When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody. "

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

" My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California. "

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

" 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. "