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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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Not everybody's gonna get your vision. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" I really love storytelling. "

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

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

" I would consider myself more a passionate centrist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane. "

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