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I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

Aaron McGruder

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Chicago
Illinois
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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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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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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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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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In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city.
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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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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 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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I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won't look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I'm not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
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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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I think the two-party system is a complete sham I think it is designed so that the voters can feel like they have the satisfaction of throwing those bums out of office every four to eight years, but without the direction of the country ever significantly changing.
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I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there's so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I'm dead serious.
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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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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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I think you have to play the game on every level. If you need a friendly, charismatic, good-looking guy to be the mouthpiece, then so be it. And maybe Ralph Nader should just be behind the scenes telling that guy what to say.
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Meeting Fidel Castro was really cool. It's cool because it's Fidel, and it's a world leader, and there's so much history behind the man and who he is in this hemisphere. And then at the end of the day, he's, I think, just like a big mayor. There's only, like, 11 million people in Cuba. He's a big mayor.
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I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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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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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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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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