Quotes

"No one feuds with me. I'm nobody. Nobody cares about what I say. People don't even read the strip." - response to word that he's making enemies.

"It would be innacurate to say that Huey's opinions are my own. I think there's a broad opinion being put through the strip with a combination of all the characters' voices." - on whether or not Huey Freeman, the strip's main character, is a mouthpiece for McGruder himself.

"I'm ready to fight outside work. If someone wants to come up and start a political conversation with me, it can quickly turn into an argument. People don't understand; a lotta this shit is not funny to me." --On his reputation for making out-spoken comments at public appearances.

"We did our best to do a Fox show, but frankly, I don't think the difficulties we had at Fox would be exclusive to Fox. I just think that broadcast television in general is a very restrictive place. It's tough to be funny because there's so many eyeballs and there's so much money at stake that I think everything is just kind of over-thought. And it's tough to be daring and do something different, either with regards to content or structure." - Describing the failed attempt of making his series The Boondocks (2005) for the FOX network in 2003. The series was later picked up by, and premiered on, the Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming block.

I went to Havana, and I was like 'Wow! There's culture everywhere! I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture. That was the one thing did notice when I went to Cuba was that artists are paid to be artists, poets are paid to be poets, and musicians are paid to be musicians by The government. The government - and I'm not saying the Cuban government's perfect - but the government does place a value on culture. Much more so than here, where culture is just a matter of commerce. -- Describing his 2002 trip to Cuba with Congresswoman Barbara Lee

I use it. A lot of young black people use it, and a lot of old black people use it. At a certain point it starts to feel fake if you're not using it. The question is when are we going to stop talking about people using the N-word?

BET may be the worst thing to happen to black people since Jimmie 'JJ' Walker. I'm a big fan of hip-hop culture, but BET is only exploiting the culture and making the race look idiotic. It's all bitches and hoes and grandiose jewelry and fancy cars.