Quotes from Larry Wilmore

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.

Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.

I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

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.

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

It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.

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

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.

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

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

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.