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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. "

Larry Wilmore

Today

Responsibility

Society

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.'' "

" 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. "

" It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them. "

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

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

" Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic. "

Larry Wilmore

Free

People

" 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. "

" Not everybody's gonna get your vision. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" I've always watched the political shows. "

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

Larry Wilmore

Born

California

" I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really. "