Aaron McGruder Quotes

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Mistake, Long, Bed

  "The Boondocks". Comic Strip by Aaron McGruder, July 10, 2001.

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Real, Thinking, White

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Ego, Speak, Flaws

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• I have to remind myself - I think the population of the United States has been subjected to the most sophisticated form of propaganda and mind control that any group of people has been exposed to in a very, very long time. It's difficult for people in this country to get any kind of factual information and to make intelligent decisions based on them.

  Aaron McGruder

  Country, Thinking, Intelligent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Aaron McGruder

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Scary, Dumb, President

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• Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

  Aaron McGruder

  Enemy, Fame

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do think comics are a dying art form because newspapers are a dying medium. But it's not to say that in the next generation, where there's people getting their news electronically, comics won't survive. Right now, they're still largely attached to the newspaper world. And the more they can break away from that, the more they have a chance to live on.

  Aaron McGruder

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Important, Scare, News

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

  Aaron McGruder

  News, Unbiased, Want

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• That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet or simply don't want to have that pessimistic of an outlook, but I think the Democratic Party is completely worthless.

  Aaron McGruder

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think, being a public figure - which, I have to admit, I guess I'm largely responsible for, in terms of going out and putting myself out there - comes with its own burdens, and its own things that cause you stress, and its own worries.

  Aaron McGruder

  Stress, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Aaron McGruder

  America, Differences, People

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• It's not the norm when creators have any protections with regards to creative control. And so it took some time, I think, for the strip to gain enough popularity where I had enough leverage to come in and say, "It has to be done in a certain way or it's not going to be done at all," and then have people willing to put up with that who were ultimately paying for it. You know, for them to be willing to kind of concede those kind of things. It just takes time, you know?

  Aaron McGruder

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Aaron McGruder

  Jesus, Lying, Government

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• We don't need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.

  Aaron McGruder

  Party

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You collapse a few times, and you put your head in your hands, and you say, "Oh my god, how am I gonna get through this?" You have a few of those nights, and then you get over it and you keep it moving. And those nights... As you get more used to the strain, I guess those nights are fewer and farther between. So that's the best you can hope for. It's a tough job and it's a lot to pull out of your brain.

  Aaron McGruder

  Moving, Night, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won't look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I'm not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.

  Aaron McGruder

  Optimistic, Thinking, Revolution

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

  Aaron McGruder

  Educated

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Don't get me wrong, it definitely ain't the Democratic Party either. They're so bad, I mean I'm actually starting to believe that John Kerry was just token resistance, that he literally was down with George W.Bush. It was just such a horrible, horrible, horrible thing to see, that campaign. So, you know, I don't know what's going on.

  Aaron McGruder

  Party, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Black, Made, Mass

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• I really get a little bit confused by all this "angry angry angry" talk when all I do is tell jokes and at least some people find it funny.

  Aaron McGruder

  Confused, People, Jokes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that's always been part of the thinking behind the script, that - and I really tried really hard to impress that upon the staff of the show, the animation staff - to try to get them to understand that we would only be able to get away with what we were writing if the visuals were appealing enough that it was like a balance, and even people who didn't like what they were hearing would still not want to turn away because what they were seeing was so nice. So that was kind of my hunch, and I think it worked.

  Aaron McGruder

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Smart, Fluid, Energetic

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

  Aaron McGruder

  Gun, Political, Terrorism

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