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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.
Larry Wilmore
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Larry Wilmore
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 30
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When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.
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There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.
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Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.
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I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it you have to prepare yourself for a life of it.
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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.
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I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
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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?
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When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.
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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.
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Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.
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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?
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I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
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You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.
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You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.
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I started as a standup comic and an actor.
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The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.
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I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.
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