I'm not that big of a celebrity.

What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.

I definitely don't look at myself as a 3-point shooter, but when we're playing three big guys, I find myself on the perimeter a lot, and they leave me alone. I've got to knock it down or do something with it.

Offense is one phase of the game. You have to be able to play the other phases of the game and help your team win.

If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it's not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.

There's no place like New York. There's nothing like the New York fans.

My personal goal was to get back to my true form, and my true form is an All-Star player.

I better make the All-Star team, and I better start.

I can shoot turnarounds from almost halfcourt.

What I do in the off season that hurts me is I take a month off and I do nothing.

I was a country boy from Texas and I love eating.

I play basketball because I like it, but the most important thing I want to do is help my family.

I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.

One of my goals is to get my degree, get my education and stay healthy.

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn't. Odessa gave me that preparation.

I'm not going to take too much credit for what's happened in my life. When we're playing, the things I do are because of my teammates. So I'm not going to take too much credit.

My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.

There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.

I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.

I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?

We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.

When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.