Larry Wilmore Quotes

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

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

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

I love writing family stories.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

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?

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.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

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

You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

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.