101 Quotes by Aaron McGruder

To me, being in the top 10 for African-American audiences is not justification to keep a show on the air. I would not be shedding any tears for the loss of those shows.

I've never been able to predict what people are going to get mad at. I've tried and I've always been surprised.

Our show is not 'Family Guy,' ... The element of race changes everything.

As long as they let me, I guess.

that's what late-night cable is for, I guess. You don't have to hear it at 8 o'clock, but you sure can hear it at 11:30, or 11 o'clock, on Adult Swim, if you so desire -- it will be there for you.

This isn't the n---a show. N---a, n---a, n---a, n---a, n---a. I just wish we would expand the dialogue and evolve past the same conversation that we've had over the past 30 years about race in our country. & I just hope to expand the dialogue and hope the show will challenge people to think about things they wouldn't normally think about, or think about it in a very different way.

A lot of people looked at the Fox pilot and said, 'We don't think it needs to be this pretty; can't you make it simpler?' They really get and appreciate everything I'm trying to do here.

they're not really thrilled about it, but I keep trying to push them.

I tried to instill a realness into them. I wanted to do this from a black point of view. I wanted to show that they're the only people playing on this playground.