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" 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. "

Larry Wilmore

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California. "

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

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

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" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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