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" 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. "

Larry Wilmore

Selling

Death

" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" 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 like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.'' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Larry Wilmore

Fun

Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

Larry Wilmore

Born

California

" I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody. "

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

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

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