101 Quotes by Aaron McGruder

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

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

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

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.

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.

We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.

Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.