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

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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. "

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

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" I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that. "

" 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. "

" There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing. "

" I've always watched the political shows. "

" You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way. "

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

" I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person. "

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

" 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. "

" Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know? "

" I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic. "

" I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really. "

" It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength. "

" I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense. "

" I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words. "

" I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression. "

" 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? "

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" 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. "

" The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100. "

" As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race. "