Quotes from Larry Wilmore

I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

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

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.

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

My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.

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

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

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.

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

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.

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

We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.