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

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" The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show. "

" I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do. "

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

" I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave. "

" I'm understated in my approach. "

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

" Not everybody's gonna get your vision. "

" My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too? "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "