Larry Wilmore Quotes

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Larry Wilmore

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 30, 1961

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

Larry Wilmore

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

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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.

Larry Wilmore

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.

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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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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.

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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

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Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.

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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?

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

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

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

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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.

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

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