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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.Collection: Larry
I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.Collection: Larry
I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.Collection: Larry
The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?Collection: Larry
We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.Collection: Larry
I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'Collection: Larry
I've always watched the political shows.Collection: Larry
Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.Collection: Larry
All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.Collection: Larry
I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.Collection: Larry
I really love storytelling.Collection: Larry
I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.Collection: Larry
Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?Collection: Larry
I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.Collection: Larry
When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.Collection: Larry
Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.Collection: Larry
Not everybody's gonna get your vision.Collection: Larry
Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.Collection: Larry
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.Collection: Larry
I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.Collection: Larry
As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.Collection: Larry
Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.Collection: Larry
I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.Collection: Larry
I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.Collection: Larry
There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.Collection: Larry
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.Collection: Larry
When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.Collection: Larry
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.Collection: Larry
Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.Collection: Larry
My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?Collection: Larry
I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.Collection: Larry
You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.Collection: Larry
When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.Collection: Larry
I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.Collection: Larry
I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.Collection: Larry
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.Collection: Larry
I'm understated in my approach.Collection: Larry
I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.Collection: Larry
The biggest thing for me is my confidence. I know I can shoot the 3, that I can shoot deep 2s.Collection: Larry
I got to work on creating my shot off the dribble.Collection: Larry
My mom, she is the least competitive person I've ever met - ever.Collection: Larry
Getting to play with Kobe was awesome and just seeing Shaq, anytime, is unreal.Collection: Larry
Playing with LeBron is pretty awesome.Collection: Larry
Growing up, having the name 'Larry Nance Jr.'... in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio - that's not the easiest thing, especially when I wasn't very good at basketball.Collection: Larry
I wasn't that talented, I wasn't big. So, I didn't have that many offers. Michigan was kind of sniffing around, but ended up not pulling the trigger.Collection: Larry
I got picked by the Lakers, but I was told the Celtics were going to take me at 28. If it wasn't there, I was told Golden State was going to take me at 30, if I was still there.Collection: Larry
Certain guys, Los Angeles can turn you into something different. But me, I just want to play basketball.Collection: Larry
I'm kind of a nerd.Collection: Larry
I even have a... placard of Lamond Murray.Collection: Larry
A hammer and nails and screws and all that stuff is just not for me.Collection: Larry