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" 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. "

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" 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 just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is. "

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

" 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 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else. "

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

" No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death. "

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

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

" 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 always compartmentalized so many different things. "

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

" One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it. "

" Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it. "

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

" I really love storytelling. "

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

" 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. "

" Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics. "