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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
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Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
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It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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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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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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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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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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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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I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.
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Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.
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I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.
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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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I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that's part of the Castro spirit.
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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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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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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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I think, being a public figure - which, I have to admit, I guess I'm largely responsible for, in terms of going out and putting myself out there - comes with its own burdens, and its own things that cause you stress, and its own worries.
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We don't need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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