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" I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic. "

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" 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. "

Larry Wilmore

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" 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. "

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

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

" Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things. "

Larry Wilmore

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

" 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. "

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

" We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them. "

" Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them. "

" We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy. "

" There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them. "

" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves. "

" I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess. "

" Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done. "

" 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. "

Larry Wilmore

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" It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day. "