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" 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. "

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" I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" In my career, I'm always trying to do something different. "

" 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. "

" I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.' "

" I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really a self-promoter-type person. "

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

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

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

" The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. "

" I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative? "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I would consider myself more a passionate centrist. "

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

" I've always watched the political shows. "