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" 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? "

Larry Wilmore

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" The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know? "

Larry Wilmore

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

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

" 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 have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression. "

" I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well. "

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

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

" 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.'' "

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

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

Larry Wilmore

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Not everybody's gonna get your vision. "

" 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. "

" I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man. "

" 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'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content. "