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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
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Television Producer
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Chicago
Illinois
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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Perhaps it's time to start examining countries that have made democracy work while still having some kind of the same relationship in covenant with their population. Perhaps we need to look at the Scandinavian countries, or Canada, or something else, but whatever we have now, I think we just have to acknowledge, ain't workin.
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Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
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I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.
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I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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At least when I was young, in high school: Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing. You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, Oh heck, let me vote. And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.
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When the news is slow, or when there's just so many other responsibilities bearing down on me that I don't have the time to do it right, that's when it gets frustrating. As an artist, you just don't wanna put bad work out. So when you have to do it seven days a week, you're just gonna have some bad days and bad weeks and bad months and bad years.
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Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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Look at this Judith Miller thing. Isn't that problematic? Like, she's getting fed information from the White House and she's feeding it to her editors and then it's in the Times and then the people at the White House can quote themselves? And it's the New York Times!
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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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