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" I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television. "

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

" 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.' "

" I'm understated in my approach. "

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" Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. "

" I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well. "

" 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. "

" In my career, I'm always trying to do something different. "

" Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too. "

" I really love storytelling. "

" 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. "

" 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've always watched the political shows. "