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" 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. "

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" I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. "

Larry Wilmore

Comedy

Type

Southern

" I'm understated in my approach. "

Larry Wilmore

Understated

Approach

" 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. "

" 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've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood. "

Larry Wilmore

Game

Gone

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

Larry Wilmore

Person

Type

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

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

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

Larry Wilmore

Born

California

" 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

You

Know

" 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. "

" I've always watched the political shows. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it. "

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

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

" Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things. "

Larry Wilmore

Focused

Doing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "