Larry Wilmore Quotes

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

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

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

"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."

"I just believe what I believe."

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

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

"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."

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

"I would consider myself more a passionate centrist."

"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 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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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 think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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 thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person."

"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."

"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."

"You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game."