Aaron McGruder Quotes (32 Quotes)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I try to insulate myself from any feedback to the strip as best I can, because it just makes it easier to do my job, ... It would just interfere with the creative process.

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

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.

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

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.

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'm trying to live well, and there is no freedom in America if you're economically bound to the system.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

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.

I made the decision early on that I was going to work myself to death now, so that I don't have to wait until 65 to enjoy my life,

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 911.

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.

I'm not a Democrat.

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 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.

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

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

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

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 1130, or 11 o'clock, on Adult Swim, if you so desire -- it will be there for you.

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.