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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.”

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Aaron McGruder

Aaron McGruder is an American cartoonist, writer, and director. He is best known for creating the comic strip 'The Boondocks', which explores racial, political, and social issues with a satirical and humorous tone. more

“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.”

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“I think there's a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you're lucky, make a decent living here. That's a big plus. That's pretty positive. The weather is OK.”

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“The biggest thing that I don't like about L.A. is the sort of 2 a.m. shutdown of everything. It really kind of stagnates the nightlife. It's very hard to casually have fun in Los Angeles. If you want to go out and have fun it's like a full-time job, you have to really prepare, and call ahead, and get on a list, and know somebody... It's really rough to relax here.”

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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”

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Book:Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.”

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“I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.”

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“I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I went to Cuba was that artists are paid to be artists, and poets are paid to be poets, and musicians are paid to be musicians by the government. The government - and I'm not saying that the Cuban government's perfect - but the government does place a value on culture.”

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“In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city.”

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“I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.”

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“Meeting Fidel Castro was really cool. It's cool because it's Fidel, and it's a world leader, and there's so much history behind the man and who he is in this hemisphere. And then at the end of the day, he's, I think, just like a big mayor. There's only, like, 11 million people in Cuba. He's a big mayor.”

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