113 Quotes by Larry Wilmore

Don't Tase Me Bro!If I'm a cop, and I'm a brotha, and they let me have a taser? Sorry bro, I'm tasing you.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

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.

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?

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic – that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it’s becoming a force to be reckoned with. There’s a lot of Mormon converts globally.

Catholic and Jew – it’s very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn’t politically correct; it’s correct correct.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.