Aaron McGruder Quotations

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

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.

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That's a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.

We do greatly expand the world we see, seeing Woodcrest and the unnamed city it's a suburb of, and we flash back to different time periods. We certainly try to take advantage of the medium.

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

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.

For me, it really first has to be a good story and be funny. If you're doing sincere comedy, the edgy stuff kind of happens on its own.

Every well needs occasional refreshing. I hope that this fall you will agree that the time away from the demands of deadlines has served the strip, your readers and me.

I figure it will either be a big hit or a massive flop; there is no room for in between,