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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016) was an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, author of several texts on AI and philosophy, and winner of the 1969 Turing Award.

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 * In today's computer science curricula … almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and generally trivial fragments of "optimization of logic design" — the latter often in situations where the art of heuristic programming has far outreached the special-case "theories" so grimly taught and tested — and invocations about programming style almost sure to be outmoded before the student graduates.
 * Turing Award Lecture "Form and Content in Computer Science" (1969), in Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 17 (2) (April 1970)

 * Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
 * Turing Award Lecture "Form and Content in Computer Science" (1969), in Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 17 (2) (April 1970)

 * Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
 * Life Magazine (20 November 1970), p. 68
 * I had the naive idea that if one could build a big enough network, with enough memory loops, it might get lucky and acquire the ability to envision things in its head. This became a field of study later. It was called self-organizing random networks. Even today, I still get letters from young students who say, 'Why are you people trying to program intelligence? Why don't you try to find a way to build a nervous system that will just spontaneously create it?' Finally, I decided that either this was a bad idea or it would take thousands or millions of neurons to make it work, and I couldn't afford to try to build a machine like that.

 * Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
 * "Communication with Alien Intelligence", in Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence (1985) edited by Edward Regis also published in Byte Magazine (April 1985)

 * Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
 * Scientific American (October 1994)

 * When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
 * Marvin Minsky in: David G. Stork (1998). HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality. p. 16

 * An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
 * TED talk (February 2003)

 * You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
 * In Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program (2005) by Rebecca Herold, p. 101

 * If you like somebody's work -- just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people came and asked me for my autograph -- and it's creepy. What I did is read everything they published first... and correct them. That's what they really want. Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.
 * In "The Society of Mind" MIT course, part 6, "Layers of Mental Activities" (25:40 -- 26:15). Fall 2011.

 * If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain cancer, because it means that some small part of your mind has figured out how to turn off all the other things.
 * In "The Many Minds of Marvin Minsky (R.I.P.)" by [[John Horgan (journalist)|John Horgan], Scientific American Blogs, 26 January 2016]

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)

 * "Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious" AI memo No. 603, (November 1980), also published in Cognitive Constraints on Communication (1981) edited by Vaina and Hintikka

 * I am inclined to doubt that anything very resembling formal logic could be a good model for human reasoning. In particular, I doubt that any logic that prohibits self-reference can be adequate for psychology: no mind can have enough power — without the power to think about Thinking itself. Without Self-Reference it would seem immeasurably harder to achieve Self-Consciousness — which, so far as I can see, requires at least some capacity to reflect on what it does. If Russell shattered our hopes for making a completely reliable version of commonsense reasoning, still we can try to find the islands of "local consistency," in which naive reasoning remains correct.

 * Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of "cognitive censors" to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past.

 * Questioning one's own "top-level" goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile — unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?

 * For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this "negative meta-knowledge" — about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful — may be a large portion of all we know.

 * All intelligent persons also possess some larger-scale frame-systems whose members seemed at first impossibly different — like water with electricity, or poetry with music. Yet many such analogies — along with the knowledge of how to apply them — are among our most powerful tools of thought. They explain our ability sometimes to see one thing — or idea — as though it were another, and thus to apply knowledge and experience gathered in one domain to solve problems in another. It is thus that we transfer knowledge via the paradigms of Science. We learn to see gases and fluids as particles, particles as waves, and waves as envelopes of growing spheres.

 * Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.

K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)

 * "K-Linesː A Theory of Memory" in Cognitive Science 4 (1980), pp.117-133

 *  When you "get an idea," or "solve a problem," or have a "memorable experience," you create what we shall call a K-line. This K-line gets connected to those "mental agencies" that were actively involved in the memorable event. When that K-line is later "activated," it reactivates some of those mental agencies, creating a "partial mental state" resembling the original.

 * We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?

 * We shall envision the mind (or brain) as composed of many partially autonomous "agents"—as a "Society" of smaller minds. ...It is easiest to think about partial states that constrain only agents within a single Division. ...(we suggest) the local mechanisms for resolving conflicts could be the precursors of what we know later as reasoning — useful ways to combine different fragments of knowledge.

 * Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers "being at" a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it "sounded like." Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.

 * I maintain that attitudes do really precede propositions, feelings come before facts.

 * Old answers never perfectly suit new questions, except in the most formal, logical circumstances.

 * Get the mind into the (partial) state that solved the old problem; then it might handle the new problem in the "same way."

 * Changing the states of many agents grossly alters behavior, while changing only a few just perturbs the overall disposition a little.

 * A memory should induce a state through which we see current reality as an instance of the remembered event — or equivalently, see the past as an instance of the present. ...the system can perform a computation analogous to one from the memorable past, but sensitive to present goals and circumstances.

 * It would seem that making unusual connections is unusually difficult and, often, rather "indirect"—be it via words, images, or whatever. The bizarre structures used by mnemonist (and, presumably unknowingly, by each of us) suggests that arbitrary connections require devious pathways.

 * Most theories of learning have been based on ideas of "reinforcement" of success. But all these theories postulate a single, centralized reward mechanism. I doubt this could suffice for human learning because the recognition of which events should be considered memorable cannot be a single, uniform process. It requires too much "intelligence." Instead I think such recognitions must be made, for each division of the mind, by some other agency that has engaged the present one for a purpose.

 * Each subsociety of mind must have its own internal epistemology and phenomenology, with most details private, not only from the central processes, but from one another.

 * Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves — apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge — and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers — but not to us as psychologists — because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

 * "Music, Mind, and Meaning" (1981), a revised version of AI Memo No. 616, MIT; also published in the Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3 (Fall 1981)

 * Only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder.

 * Our culture has a universal myth in which we see emotion as more complex and obscure than intellect. Indeed, emotion might be "deeper" in some sense of prior evolution, but this need not make it harder to understand; in fact, I think today we actually know much more about emotion than about reason.

 * If explaining minds seems harder than explaining songs, we should remember that sometimes enlarging problems makes them simpler! The theory of the roots of equations seemed hard for centuries within its little world of real numbers, but it suddenly seemed simple once Gauss exposed the larger world of so-called complex numbers. Similarly, music should make more sense once seen through listeners' minds.

 * We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.

 * What is the difference between merely knowing (or remembering, or memorizing) and understanding? ...A thing or idea seems meaningful only when we have several different ways to represent it — different perspectives and different associations. ...Then we can turn it around in our minds, so to speak: however it seems at the moment, we can see it another way and we never come to a full stop. In other words, we can 'think' about it. If there were only one way to represent this thing or idea, we would not call this representation thinking.

 * Of what use is musical knowledge? Here is one idea. Each child spends endless days in curious ways; we call this play. A child stacks and packs all kinds of blocks and boxes, lines them up, and knocks them down. … Clearly, the child is learning about space! ...how on earth does one learn about time? Can one time fit inside another? Can two of them go side by side? In music, we find out!

 * The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompaniment.

 * Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.

 * Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious.

 * Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

 * Music... immerses us in seemingly stable worlds! How can this be, when there is so little of it present at each moment?

 * Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.

 * Our eyes are always flashing sudden flicks of different pictures to our brains, yet none of that saccadic action leads to any sense of change or motion in the world; each thing reposes calmly in its "place"! ...What makes us such innate Copernicans?

 * How do both music and vision build things in our minds? Eye motions show us real objects; phrases show us musical objects. We "learn" a room with bodily motions; large musical sections show us musical "places." Walks and climbs move us from room to room; so do transitions between musical sections. Looking back in vision is like recapitulation in music; both give us time, at certain points, to reconfirm or change our conceptions of the whole.

 * Innate sentic detectors could help by teaching children about their own affective states. For if distinct signals arouse specific states, the child can associate those signals with those states. Just knowing that such states exist, that is, having symbols for them, is half the battle.

 * When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.

The Society of Mind (1987)

 * We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
 * Prologue

 * This book... too, is a society — of many small ideas. Each by itself is only common sense, yet when we join enough of them we explain the strangest mysteries of mind.
 * Prologue

 * Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle.
 * Ch.1

 * How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
 * Ch.1

 * The "laws of thought" depend not only on the property of brain cells, but also on how they are connected. And these connections are established not by the basic, "general" laws of physics... To be sure, "general" laws apply to everything. But, for that very reason, they can rarely explain anything in particular. ...Each higher level of description must add to our knowledge about lower levels.
 * Ch.2

 * Questions about arts, traits, and styles of life are actually quite technical. They ask us to explain what happens among the agents of our minds. But this is a subject about which we have never learned very much... Such questions will be answered in time. But it will just prolong the wait if we keep using pseudo-explanation words like "holistic" and "gestalt." …It's harmful, when naming leads the mind to think that names alone bring meaning close.
 * Ch.2

 * One's present personality cannot share all the thoughts of one's older personalities — and yet it has some sense that they exist. This is one reason why we feel that we possess an inner Self — a sort of ever-present person-friend, inside the mind, whom we can always ask for help.

 * We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

 * For generations, scientists and philosophers have tried to explain ordinary reasoning in terms of logical principles — with virtually no success. I suspect this enterprise failed because it was looking in the wrong direction: common sense works so well not because it is an approximation of logic; logic is only a small part of our great accumulation of different, useful ways to chain things together.
 * p. 187

 * What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
 * p. 308

Perceptrons (1988)

 * One popular version is that the publication of our book so discouraged research on learning in network machines that a promising line of research was interrupted. Our version is that progress had already come to a virtual halt because of the lack of adequate basic theories... Most theorists had tried to focus only on the mathematical structure of what was common to all learning, and the theories to which this had led were too general and too weak to explain which patterns perceptrons could learn to recognize... The trouble appeared when perceptrons had no way to represent the knowledge required for solving certain problems. The moral was that one simply cannot learn enough by studying learning by itself; one also has to understand the nature of what one wants to learn.
 * p. xii-xiii
 * Perceptrons have been widely publicized as “pattern recognition” or “learning” machines and as such have been discussed in a large number of books, journal articles, and voluminous “reports.” Most of this writing...is without scientific value.
 * p. 4
 * We do not see that any good can come of experiments which pay no attention to limiting factors that will assert themselves as soon as the small model is scaled up to a usable size.
 * p. 18
 * [We] became involved with a somewhat therapeutic compulsion: to dispel what we feared to be the first shadows of a “holistic” or “Gestalt” misconception that would threaten to haunt the fields of engineering and artificial intelligence as it had earlier haunted biology and psychology. For this, and for a variety of more practical and theoretical goals, we set out to find something about the range and limitations of perceptrons.
 * p. 20
 * Have you considered perceptrons with many layers? ... We have not found (by thinking or by studying the literature) any other really interesting class of multilayered machine, at least none whose principles seem to have a significant relation to those of the perceptron. To see the force of this qualification it is worth pondering the fact, trivial in itself, that a universal computer could be built entirely out of linear threshold modules. This does not in any sense reduce the theory of computation and programming to the theory of perceptrons.
 * p. 231
 * More concretely, we would call the student's attention to the following considerations: 1. Multilayer machines with loops clearly open all the questions of the general theory of automata.  2. A system with no loops but with an order restriction at each layer can compute only predicates of finite order.  3. On the other hand, if there is no restriction except for the absence of loops, the monster of vacuous generality once more raises its head. The perceptron has shown itself worthy of study despite (and even because of!) its severe limitations. It has many features to attract attention: its linearity; its intriguing learning theorem; its clear paradigmatic simplicity as a kind of parallel computation. There is no reason to suppose that any of these virtues carry over to the many-layered version. Nevertheless, we consider it to be an important research problem to elucidate (or reject) our intuitive judgment that the extension is sterile. Perhaps some powerful convergence theorem will be discovered, or some profound reason for the failure to produce an interesting “learning theorem” for the multilayered machine will be found.
 * p. 231-232
 * We could extend them either by scaling up small connectionist models or by combining small-scale networks into some larger organization. In the first case, we would expect to encounter theoretical obstacles to maintaining [generalized delta rule]’s effectiveness on larger, deeper nets. And despite the reputed efficacy of other alleged remedies for the deficiencies of hill-climbing, such as “annealing,” we stay with our research conjecture that no such procedures will work very well on large-scale nets, except in the case of problems that turn out to be of low order in some appropriate sense. The second alternative is to employ a variety of smaller networks rather than try to scale up a single one... No single-method learning scheme can operate efficiently for every possible task; we cannot expect any one type of machine to account for any large portion of human psychology.
 * p. 267-268

The Emotion Machine (2006)

 * Perhaps it is no accident that one meaning of the word express is "to squeeze"—for when you try to "express yourself," your language resources will have to pick and choose among the descriptions your other resources construct—and then attempt to squeeze a few of these through your tiny channels of phrases and gestures.

 * I suspect our human "thinking processes" often "break down," but you rarely notice anything's wrong, because your systems so quickly switch you to think in different ways, while the systems that failed are repaired or replaced.

 * Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.

 * We still remain prone to doctrines, philosophies, faiths, and beliefs that spread through the populations of entire civilizations. It is hard to imagine any foolproof ways to protect ourselves from such infections. ...the best we can do is to try to educate our children to learn more skills of critical thinking and methods of scientific verification.

 * Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.

Attributed

 * I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience… How would they know?
 * Mat Buckland,  AI Techniques for Game Programming (2002), Cincinnati, OH: Premier Press, 36 ISBN 1-931841-08-X.
 * It would seem that Perceptrons has much the same role as The Necronomicon -- that is, often cited but never read.
 * Berkeley, Istvan SN. "A revisionist history of connectionism." (1997), attributing it to (Minsky, personal communication, 1994).

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 * ... invented a very simple single-layer device called a . ...Unfortunately, its influence was damped by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, who proved [in Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry (1969)] that the Perceptron architecture and learning rule could not execute the "exclusive OR" and therefore could not learn. This killed interest in Perceptrons for a number of years... It is possible to construct multilayer networks of simple units that could easily execute the exclusive OR... Minsky and Papert would have contributed more if they had produced a solution to this problem rather than beating the Perceptron to death.
 * Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (1994)

 * Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form.
 * Robert Floyd, The Paradigms of Programming, 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455–460
 * When the Minsky and Papert book came out, entitled Perceptrons... I saw they'd done some serious work here, and there was some good mathematics in this book, but I said, "My God, what a hatchet job."... I felt that they had sufficiently narrowly defined what the perceptron was, that they were able to prove that it could do practically nothing... I couldn't understand what the point of it was, why the hell they did it. But I know how long it takes to write a book. I figured that they must have gotten inspired to write that book really early on to squelch the field, to do what they could to stick pins in the balloon. But by the time the book came out, the field was already gone. There was just about nobody doing it.
 * Bernard Widrow, interview on March 29, 1994.
 * I was one of the people suffering from Minsky and Papert's book [Perceptrons] because it went roughly this way: you start telling somebody about your work, and this visitor or whoever you talk to says, "Don't you know that this area is dead?" It is something like what we experienced in the pattern recognition society when everything started to be structural and grammatical and semantic and so on. If somebody said, "I'm doing research on the statistical pattern recognition," then came this remark, "Hey, don't you know that is a dead idea already?"
 * Teuvo Kohonen, interview in March 1993,
 * Many people see the book as what killed neural nets, but I really don't think that's true. I think that the funding priorities, the fashions in computer science departments, had shifted the emphasis away from neural nets to the more symbolic methods of AI by the time the book came out. I think it was more that a younger generation of computer scientists who didn't know the earlier work may have used the book as justification for sticking with "straight AI" and ignoring neural nets.
 * Michael A. Arbib, interview in March 1993,
 * The wall-to-wall media coverage of Rosenblatt and his machine irked Minsky. One reason was that although Rosenblatt 's training was in "soft science," his perceptron work was quite mathematical and quite sound--turf that Minsky, with his "hard science" Princeton mathematics PhD, didn't feel Rosenblatt belonged on. Perhaps an even greater problem was the fact that the heart of the perceptron machine was a clever motor-driven potentiometer adaptive element that had been pioneered in the world's first neurocomputer the "SNARC" which had been designed and built by Minsky several years earlier!  In some ways, Minsky 's early career was like that of Darth Vader. He started out as one of the earliest pioneers in neural networks, but was then turned to the dark side of the force (AI) and became the strongest and most effective foe of his original community. This view of his career history is not unknown to him. When he was invited to give the keynote address at a large neural network conference in the late 1980s to an absolutely rapt audience he began with the words: "I am not the Devil!"
 * Robert Hemt-Nielsen, interview in July 1993,
 * In his summary talk at the end of the conference [ The AI@50 conference (2006)], Marvin Minsky started out by saying how disappointed he was both by the talks and by where AI was going. He explained why: “You’re not working on the problem of general intelligence. You’re just working on applications.”... At the end of the dinner, the five returning members of the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence made brief remarks about the conference and the future of AI. In the question and answer period, I stood up and, turning to Minsky, said: “There is a belief in the neural network community that you are the devil who was responsible for the neural network winter in the 1970s. Are you the devil?” Minsky launched into a tirade about how we didn’t understand the mathematical limitations of our networks. I interrupted him—“Dr. Minsky, I asked you a yes or no question. Are you, or are you not, the devil?” He hesitated for a moment, then shouted out, “Yes, I am the devil!”
 * Terrence J. Sejnowski, The Deep Learning Revolution (2018), Chapter 17.
 * ... there wasn’t anyone in the Mathematics Department who was qualified to assess his dissertation, so they sent it to the mathematicians at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton who, it was said, talked to God. The reply that came back was, “If this isn’t mathematics today, someday it will be,” which was good enough to earn Minsky his Ph.D.
 * Terrence J. Sejnowski, The Deep Learning Revolution (2018), Chapter 17.
 * In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe”, Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.  Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher. “So that the room will be empty.”  At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
 * “Sussman attains enlightenment”, “AI Koans”, Jargon File

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Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is a novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology on human lives, but without "gee-whiz" or Luddite overtones.

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 * All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.
 * Galatea 2.2

 * Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
 * The Goldbug Variations

 * What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like living, which amounts to the same thing, was not the accumulations of Gnostic power, fixing of formulas for the names of God, stockpiling brutal efficiency, accomplishing the sadistic myth of progress. the purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it.
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 * One day, maybe she'd stick around to explore her own capacity for the dark, but at the moment all she wanted was a cheeseburger.
 * Kinflicks

 * Two people sat talking in a small room for several weeks, and things started happening. They began thinking about each other; one would dream about the other; they copied each other's mannerisms. What was it really all about? She liked to think she had a firm hold on the reins at all times, but the truth was that often she was just along for the ride.
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 * They're 'fun bags' not 'feed bags!'
 * Radio From Hell (January 13, 2006)

 * He's living 'La Vida Wee-Wee'.
 * Radio From Hell (January 16, 2006)

 * Eat your way to safety!
 * Radio From Hell (February 3, 2006)

 * Is that about farting zombies?
 * Radio From Hell (February 8, 2006)

 * I don't believe the government has a knobby.
 * Radio From Hell (March 9, 2006)

 * We're nothing but common whores.
 * Radio From Hell (March 10, 2006)

 * It's not easy being a bivalve in today's modern world.
 * Radio From Hell (March 21, 2006)

 * I'm talking from my muff.
 * Radio From Hell (March 23, 2006)

 * How long are you supposed to leave your Karl Malone tree up?
 * Radio From Hell (March 24, 2006)

 * The 'jugastuff' had a baby this spring.
 * Radio From Hell (March 27, 2006)

 * A rich compost of turkey manure and wood shavings.
 * Radio From Hell (April 12, 2006)

 * Honey? Traffic's kinda busy and you're naked. Honey!?
 * Radio From Hell (April 14, 2006)

 * I don't care. I'm Mr. Buttons.
 * Radio From Hell (April 17, 2006)

 * It's fun to watch butter on the hoof.
 * Radio From Hell (April 19, 2006)

 * Do what is right let the booty follow.
 * Radio From Hell (April 21, 2006)

 * Our show curdles milk.
 * Radio From Hell (April 24, 2006)

 * You can't trust midgets, particularly gay-loving midgets.
 * Radio From Hell (May 30, 2006)

 * You know who Carrot-Top should be married to in a movie? Gallagher.
 * Radio From Hell (May 30, 2006)

 * Jesus is a place-kicker and he's gonna kick you through the goal-posts of life.
 * Radio From Hell (June 6, 2006)

 * There is no way you could sit down more than you do.
 * Radio From Hell (June 7, 2006)

 * Growing up with the runs.
 * Radio From Hell (June 12, 2006)

 * I think I just got horny.
 * Radio From Hell (June 19, 2006)

 * What do you mean you washed my three-piece hemp suit in the laundry?
 * Radio From Hell (June 22, 2006)

 * That's her psychic cock waking her up.
 * Radio From Hell (July 14, 2006)

 * Don't look at me weird. I'm sandwich crazy.
 * Radio From Hell (July 18, 2006)

 * Nothing cleans my palette like a polka.
 * Radio From Hell (August 22, 2006)

 * I'm telling you, back in those Wendover days, it wasn't that hard to get it out of me.
 * Radio From Hell (August 31, 2006)

 * Mmmmmm......assey.
 * Radio From Hell (September 7, 2006)

 * It's only due to modern technology that you can be as pleasingly plump as you are.
 * Radio From Hell (September 8, 2006)

 * Since my mother shaved her Hitler mustache, we look nothing alike.
 * Radio From Hell (September 12, 2006)

 * Nothing will wilt spinach like an Egyptian fart.
 * Radio From Hell (September 14, 2006)

 * Let's go stomp those weirdies for Jesus!
 * X96 Big-Ass Show 2006

 * Wouldn't you like a nose like his full of quarters?
 * Radio From Hell (November 7, 2006)

 * I'm not a bottom poker and I never have been.
 * Radio From Hell (October 13, 2006)

 * I've got a woolly worm for ya!
 * Radio From Hell (October 24, 2006)

 * There isn't anything on you, body or brain, that thinks.
 * Radio From Hell (October 31, 2006)

 * I'm gonna go home and spank the clown.
 * Radio From Hell (October 31, 2006)

 * People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
 * Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)

 * You treat your food like a scab.
 * Radio From Hell (November 6, 2006)

 * Apparently they have The Clap at The Planetarium.
 * Radio From Hell (November 15, 2006)

 * My prostate thanks the car wash.
 * Radio From Hell (November 15, 2006)

 * I always thought Steve Guttenberg had crabs.
 * Radio From Hell (November 28, 2006)

 * I saw a picture of Lou Reed and David Bowie standing together and it looked like an AD for jerky.
 * Radio From Hell (December 4, 2006)

 * Her and her colostomy bag look forward to spending the holidays together.
 * Radio From Hell (December 6, 2006)

 * The juice is guilt.
 * Radio From Hell (January 4, 2007)

 * I'm afraid of passing out in the pit.
 * Radio From Hell (January 4, 2007)

 * You make my ass hurt!
 * Radio From Hell (January 9, 2007)

 * Don't you know who I am!? I'm Chetwar Balabafoo!
 * Radio From Hell (January 23, 2007)

 * I'm telling you, some of them gizzards are good!
 * Radio From Hell (January 29, 2007)

 * I wasn't prepared for what Dora was explorin'.
 * Radio From Hell (January 31, 2007)

 * Life is like a bowl of old bread.
 * Radio From Hell (February 6, 2007)

 * I always say, "Don't let your meat loaf."
 * Radio From Hell (February 6, 2007)

 * You know, that's the first time I've ever been able to smell a website.
 * Radio From Hell (February 6, 2007) - referring to Kip Winger's website

 * I gotta go pinch off a norbit.
 * Radio From Hell (February 8, 2007)

 * Barbaro dog food is dog-gone good.
 * Radio From Hell (February 12, 2007)

 * You're a quirky doctor aren't you? Good, because I have a sore quirky.
 * Radio From Hell (March 15, 2007)

 * Billy Dee Williams once had a one-night stand with Neil Simon.
 * Radio From Hell (March 16, 2007)

 * Hey, would you like a date? I have a hammer!?
 * Radio From Hell (March 19, 2007)

 * Words can hurt, you stupid bitch.
 * Radio From Hell (March 28, 2007)

 * If I'm gonna poke something into it, it's not going to be my finger.
 * Radio From Hell (March 28, 2007)

 * Take my prostate, please!
 * Radio From Hell (April 5, 2007)

 * I hope that holds the little bastards.
 * Radio From Hell (April 5, 2007)

 * I never cry over pie.
 * Radio From Hell (April 18, 2007)

 * She was no breath freshener, I can tell you that right now.
 * Radio From Hell (April 20, 2007)

 * I let the baby drink the butter.
 * Radio From Hell (April 26, 2007)

 * I'm gonna have to scrape off my Dick Trickle sticker.
 * Radio From Hell (May 1, 2007)

 * You clutched my personal hair and ripped it out by the roots.
 * Radio From Hell (May 11, 2007)

 * I used to wear food briefs. They were crumby.
 * Radio From Hell (May 16, 2007)

 * I like cock.
 * Radio From Hell (May 21, 2007) - Referring to the terminology for a male chicken

 * Hello!? Stop by for coitus!
 * Radio From Hell (May 22, 2007)

 * Hey, Dad, I'm going to reassemble this magpie carcass.
 * Radio From Hell (June 11, 2007)

 * I'm too hot to mate.
 * Radio From Hell (June 15, 2007)

 * You haven't tasted my mouth! God!
 * Radio From Hell (July 23, 2007)

 * I like boob-sweat. I have some right now.
 * Radio From Hell (August 1, 2007)

 * I'm telling you, if there were balls to be held, I held them.
 * Radio From Hell (August 7, 2007)

 * I can't run naked; I'm always tripping.
 * Radio From Hell (August 14, 2007)

 * I could do that if they were on my butt-cheeks.
 * Radio From Hell (August 31, 2007)

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Neil Bauman

Neil J. Bauman (born in 1951) is the Executive Vice President of the American company eBaum's World.

Quotes
The following quotes were sent in emails to Max Goldberg regarding problems with members of Max's site. 1

 * You have now officially crossed the line.

 * Well, that being said, we don't care how you advertise your stupidity, but eBaum's World Inc lives in the real world, and we are very tolerant and sensitive to the underprivileged and the mentally challenged.

 * Please feel free to post this if you have the gonads.

 * This is true lunacy!

 * The first guy you sent in here probably soiled his pants when he couldn't answer the simplest question and literally ran out the door...LOL.

 * Obviously you have lost possession of your Yiddish cup.

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Talk:Final Fantasy Tactics

couple of duplicate here and there

Maybe it says this in non-American translations of the game, but I've played through the game four times, and read the game script off of GameFaqs.com several times, and I cannot find the following quote:

[After knocking Ovelia out] Forgive me. Tis your birth and faith that wrong you, not I.

As such, I have deleted it. If I am wrong, sorry. Feel free to put it back up.

--Erauqssidlroweht 00:57, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, because this quote came from the remake on the PSP, War of the Lions. One question from me, should we use quotes here from the remake on PSP, or stay in the original on PSX? I think wikiquote still haven't had much good administration... Xaliber 02:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Rite, I've found the PSP version's quotes. So I deleted that quote up there. Also added a link to there. I've answered my own question, haha.

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Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919.

Quotes

 * If I knew something about it, I wouldn’t lecture on it!
 * As quoted in: Cassidy, David C., Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1992), p. 104.

Disputed

 * Zuko saysThermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, so it doesn't bother you any more.
 * As quoted in: J.Muller, Physical Chemistry in Depth (Springer Science & Business Media, 1992), p. 1. No primary source is given in that book.

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User:Onceler~enwikiquote

Hello! There's not much here, but thanks for dropping by. -Onceler

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User:Ctdunstan~enwikiquote

I'm not a very frequent contributer here. I've just made a few edits really. I also made a couple edits with 68.108.241.122 before I had an account. See my Wikipedia user page if you want to know more about me. Feel free to leave something on either talk page.

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User talk:Sean Black~enwikiquote

Welcome! (We can't say that loud/big enough!)

Here are a few links you might find helpful:

 * Be Bold!
 * Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
 * Learn from others
 * Play nice with others
 * Contribute, Contribute, Contribute!
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You can sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing ~ our software automatically converts it to your username and the date.

If you have any questions or problems, no matter what they are, leave me a message on my talk page.

We're so glad you're here! Essjay Talk • Contact 08:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Sean: I thought you might like to see the banner I used to have on my userpage:

You're welcome to use it if you like. -- Essjay Talk • Contact 09:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I almost added "except change the link" but decided not to b/c I didn't want you to feel like I was being patronized; it becomes blatantly obvious that it's ripped when you don't even change the links! :-p Essjay Talk • Contact 17:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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User:RayaruB

See My WP User Page

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User:Sean Black~enwikiquote

I'm w:en:User:Sean Black, and I'm more active there- if you need an immediate response, go to my en: talk page or email me

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The Boondocks (comic strip)

The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine The Source in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, The Boondocks satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman.

Quotes

 * Huey: Riley, we're not in Chicago anymore... These people are well-off... comfortable. These are not the hard streets of the South Side, Chicago.  Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
 * Riley: I think so. I'm the hardest, baddest thing for miles, and I can run amok here without fear.
 * Huey: No. Let me try this again...
 * (4/19/1999)

 * Huey: Oppressors, run and hide! Fear the arrival of the righteous! I, Huey Freeman, represent your darkest fear! I am a black freedom fighter! My knowledge of self shines boldly in the face of the beast! Your seething hatred will not- WHAT THE…?
 * Elderly woman: Aren’t you the cutest thing… Just a big ole cutie pie, that’s what you are. Young man, you are so adorable I would love to just take you home with me.
 * Huey: I bet you would… Maybe have me sitting around your house being docile like a bad 80’s sitcom, huh? Do I look like Gary Coleman or Emmanuel Lewis to you? Am I supposed to use cute little slang and be your little black stuffed doll? Well, this is one black man who will not be demasculinized. I’m nobody’s pet negro, is that understood?
 * Elderly woman: What was that sweetie? My hearing isn’t what it used to be…
 * Huey: Oh never mind…
 * (4/24/1999)

 * Huey: Ok Jazmine, if you're not Black, then what are you, Hmmm?
 * Jazmine: Well, let's see... My mother is one-quarter Irish, one-quarter Swedish, and one-half German.  And my grandmother on my father's side is part Cherokee, and my grandfather is mostly French, I think, because he's originally from Louisiana, and his father was from Haiti, I believe, which makes me...
 * Huey: Which makes you as black as Richard Roundtree in Shaft in Africa.
 * Jazmine: IT DOES NOT!!  And who is Richard Roundtree?"

 * Huey: Riley, from now on I’m taking personal responsibility for your actions. Here is a list of unacceptable behavior. Commit it to memory.
 * Riley: What? Negro, please… “No disrespecting authority.” Man, last year you attacked the principal with three different styles of kung-fu!
 * Huey: Um. That was different. He was ‘’’unjust’’’ authority.
 * Riley: “No graffiti.” So you’re tryin’ to stifle my cultural expression?
 * Huey: No. Uh, that should read “no graffiti without artistic merit.
 * Riley: “No stealing”? Don’t you always say theft in America is justified because the whole country is stolen land?
 * Huey: Yeah, I sure do. Well. I quit. Can you at least try to stay out of jail?
 * Riley: I’m not makin’ any promises…
 * (5/16/1999)

 * Thomas Dubois: Listen Huey, you have to try to understand how sensitive Jazmine is about her hair. She sees her mother’s hair and she doesn’t understand why her hair doesn’t look the same way. My wife doesn’t have a clue what to do with it, and neither do I. Meanwhile, we’ve tried everything to straighten it. Every hair-relaxer ever made. Nothing works…
 * Huey: Have you tried emphasizing the natural beauty of her African features?
 * Thomas Dubois: …or how about lye? You know, burn her hair straight, like the old days, that might work…
 * (5/28/1999)

 * Granddad: Huey? Come on in, boy. It’s getting late.
 * Huey: Can’t granddad. I’m still on Klan Watch. The Klan doesn’t sleep, so neither do I. Go on to bed, granddad… And sleep well knowing that Huey Freeman is at his post.
 * Granddad: Boy, you’re about to have a lot more than the Klan to worry about!
 * Huey: What?! The New World Order!!??
 * Granddad: No, my belt! Now get inside!
 * (6/10/1999)

 * Riley: I just can't imagine what life must have been like for granddad growing up without the net. It's like... How did kids meet and talk to complete strangers when he was young?
 * (6/15/1999)

 * Huey: See, granddad – I need home schooling. There’s so much that I want to learn that no American school will ever teach me.
 * Granddad: Like what?
 * Huey: Like how to overthrow an imperialist capitalist regime and replace it with a socialist system which recognizes and protects the collective good against personal avarice.
 * Granddad: And I’m supposed to teach you that?
 * Huey: Hey, I know you used to be a radical – I’ve seen the pictures.
 * Grandad: (Sigh) You own one dashiki thirty years ago and nobody lets you forget.
 * (8/14/1999)

 * Granddad: Now, just calm down, boy. You’re overreacting.
 * Huey: Overreacting?! These people named an elementary school after J. Edgar Hoover and I’m overreacting? Am I the only person who’s heard of “COINTELPRO”? I mean, why Hoover? Why not, oh, Strom Thurmond? Or George Wallace. Huh?!
 * Granddad: I think they named the middle school after George Wallace…
 * Huey: WHAT?!
 * Granddad: That was a joke, boy. Loosen up already.
 * Huey: I hate this place.
 * (8/26/1999)

 * Principal: Huey, this is Mr. Petto – your new teacher.
 * Mr. Petto: Uh – nice to meet you, Huey.
 * Huey: Mr. Petto - Public educational facilities such as this are the cornerstone of the institutionalized racism that continues to oppress black people. Not only will I refuse to succumb to your brainwashing – I will dedicate myself to the eventual elimination of this abomination to the high pursuit of learning.
 * Mr. Petto: I quit, effective immediately.
 * Principal: Nonsense! Looks like it’s going to be a great year! Have fun, boys!
 * (9/8/1999)

 * Jar Jar Binks: Good morning, brothers and sisters, I am the Gungan formerly known as Jar Jar Binks. Welcome to a new and very different “Wacky Fun With Jar Jar Binks.”I ain’t shufflin’ no more. It’s revolution time! Oh yeah! Back when I was blind, deaf and dumb, I used to speak ignorantly for the man. Act like a buffoon for the man and degrade myself and my people for the man. Why I remember when George Lucasmade me and Ahmed Best shine the shoes of the entire cast and crew of “The Phantom Menace” Well, those days are long gone, brothers and sisters! I’ve been reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon, and that new comic strip “The Boondocks,” and I’ve gained a true knowledge of self. From now on, I shall be called Jabari Jabari Binko!! Come back next week, kids, when I’ll be discussing the forced redistribution of George Lucas’ wealth and the joys of socialism. Stay strong, brothers and sisters. All power to the people!
 * …um, this may not have been the best idea. – Editor
 * (9/26/1999)

 * Sarah: Honey, we bought this house on the corner of Gurgling Brook and Blushing Dove, right?
 * Tom: Of course, why?
 * Sarah: Because now it's on the corner of Wu-Tang Drive and Buckshot Avenue.
 * Tom: Huey or Riley?
 * Sarah: Riley. Will you talk to him, or should I fill out a change-of-address form?
 * (10/21/1999)

 * Mr. Petto: So if I understand correctly, you do not have your textbook with you, Huey?
 * Huey: Correct.
 * Mr. Petto: Because you felt there were other texts that deserved priority in your bookbag?
 * Huey: Correct.
 * Mr. Petto: Texts like Shabazz K. Jenkins, “How to tell if your teacher is brainwashing you with Eurocentrism”?
 * Huey: Given your stirring tribute to Christopher Columbus last month, I believe I made the right call.
 * (11/11/1999)

 * [Riley is writing a letter to Santa.]
 * Dear Santa, You don’t know me and I don’t know you. I ain’t the type to be believin’ no fairy tales and sweatin’ some fat dude at the mall. But when it comes to my cheddar, I don’t take chances. See I don’t know if you exist or not. But if you do and you been hittin’ all those other off, but failed to bless esco- we got beef, kid, word! Fortunately for you I know two words that save ya life, son… Platinum jewelry (and put some ice on that) signed, Riley Esco
 * (12/21/1999)

 * Tom Dubois: Here!!! Are you happy?!! My wife and daughter made this shirt, so now I’m doomed to wear it. Congratulations, Huey, you have officially ruined my Christmas. For the past three hours I have listened to endless talk about political prisoners and the world’s injustice. Thank you very much!!!
 * Huey: I didn’t mean to –
 * Thomas Dubois: I often wonder – is there anyplace or anything that has been left unscarred by the cynics and the purveyors of bitterness, anger and despair? Does there exist, anywhere, an unadulterated land of childhood fantasy and imagination? Is there no innocence left in the world??!!
 * Huey: How about the funnies?
 * Thomas Dubois: Please…
 * (12/23/1999)

 * Hello and a hearty salute to Bob Johnson and BET, who recently proclaimed that BET does more to serve the Black community each and every day than the creator of this feature - one "playa hating" Aaron McGruder - has done his entire life. In order to follow the fine example set by Mr. Johnson, we present to you, the reader,  in the spirit of Black uplift - <bt> a black woman's gyrating rear end.
 * [shows a drawing of a woman's ass]
 * (1/31/2000)

 * Reporter: More controversy surrounding Bob Jones University today – the school whose ban on interracial dating drew criticism to the bush campaign when he spoke there weeks ago. Today presidential hopeful Alan Keyes was beaten by Bob Jones University security as he arrived to speak at the school. It seems a white female aide was mistaken for a girlfriend.
 * Alan Keyes: It was my fault. I should have been more careful. I feel much better! Really!! End affirmative action!!
 * Reporter: University officials refused to apologize for the beating, saying “Hey it looked to us like he was violating God’s will by dating a white lady. Better safe than sorry.” Keyes returned to give his speech after agreeing to “keep his distance from the white women” and keep “eyeballing” to a minimum.
 * (2/17/2000)

 * Huey: I'm sick of women singing about broke men, sick of men singing about loose women, sick of award shows, sick of name-brand clothes... From this moment on, I stand as the antithesis of Black popular culture!! I am the Anti-Cool! I hereby declare myself... A NERD!
 * Riley: Word?! You? A Nerd?! Speaking of shockers, I just found out that Wesley Snipes is Black! Really! So is Isaac Hayes!  And Ray Charles still can't see!! Can you believe it? Wow... Huey is a nerd... who woulda thought...
 * Huey: (sigh) Far be it from me to begrudge someone the occasional sarcastic remark...
 * Riley: Hey, I heard that Bill Clinton really loves the ladies...
 * Huey: OK, don't press your luck!
 * (3/26/2000)

 * Thomas Dubois: Hey, what’s new Mr. Freeman?
 * Granddad: Seen Huey?
 * Thomas Dubois: Not today, why?
 * Granddad: I’m worried about him, he’s been kinda upset recently.
 * Thomas Dubois: Can I ask you a question?
 * Granddad: Yeah…
 * Thoams Dubois: How the heck can you tell when he’s “kinda” upset?
 * (4/14/2000)

 * Michael Caesar: So is theft a problem around here?
 * Huey: Here?! Yeah, right… These are the privileged, upper-class bourgeois…the exploiters of the poor. They don’t need to steal- they control the system!
 * Michael Caesar: I see… I was just wondering who was trying to steal the rims off my big wheel.
 * Huey: Riley!!
 * (4/24/2000)

 * Riley: Granddad, are you fully down with helping me fulfill my career aspirations?
 * Granddad: Depends on the aspirations…
 * Riley: Do you know that telecommunications is the wave of the future?
 * Granddad: Good thing I’m from the old school…
 * Riley: I heard that a black man invented the cellular phone, did you know that?
 * Granddad: A black man invented the rocket catapult, too – don’t mean you’ll have one anytime soon…
 * (5/3/2000)

 * Huey: There’s too much prosperity – that’s the problem… A good economy distracts the masses – lulls them into a false sense of freedom. We need a blatantly cruel and senseless economy to stir the wrath of the people… Never thought I’d say this, but we need a Bush back in office.
 * (5/31/2000)

 * Huey: I know…I know you’re not serious.
 * Riley: Did I stutter? I said the N-R-A.
 * Huey: You idiot!! You’re not even nine years old and you don’t own a gun!!
 * Riley: And much like myself, my boys at the NRA were very upset at this fact!!
 * (6/3/2000)

 * NRA letter: Thank you for your interest in the National Rifle Association. As you already know, we strive constantly to safeguard the Second Amendment freedoms of American citizens…The National Rifle Association is made up of hard-working American citizens just like yourself – from all walks of life and all ages. These men and women could be your teacher, or your doctor, or your pastor. They are decent, peaceful, law-abiding citizens of this great land… and they have all sworn to blast the living heck out of any local, state or federal authority who attempts to restrict their constitutionally protected right to bear arms.
 * Riley: Wow, I thought I was hard-core.
 * (6/6/2000)

 * Riley: Yo, Huey, look at this! You talk about how bad the NRA is, well check out who’s down… It’s that Moses guy from that movie –
 * Huey: First of all, Moses isn’t just a character in a movie, second, he wasn’t white, third … I’ll check the old testament, but I’m pretty sure Moses wasn’t packin’ heat.
 * (6/12/2000).

 * Huey: It’s not the guns that bother me. I believe in the right to bear arms –
 * Caesar: Right…
 * Huey: It’s the frightening ideologies behind the guns that worry me. I say, let’s keep the guns …
 * Caesar: True…
 * Huey: And let’s ban the conservative, imperialist, capitalist oppressors who make the world such a violent place! Think about it! We get rid of them, and we don’t ‘’’need’’’ the guns anymore!!
 * Caesar: You think they say the same thing about us?
 * (6/14/2000)

 * Caesar: Hey man, are you ok?
 * Huey: A friend of mine back home just died...I never got to say goodbye, you know? I keep wishing he'll come back as a blue ghost, like Obi-Wan Kenobi. There's so much I want to say to him. [sigh] Why can't life be like Star Wars?
 * Caesar: Well, then Jar-Jar Binks would be real, and there'd be a bunch of Ewoks running around everywhere - nobody wants that.
 * Huey: A small price to pay if the people you love could come back as blue ghosts.
 * (7/9/2000)

 * Granddad: These dummies just ain’t using their brains, boy!! How hard is it to get these fools to think? Is that too much to ask?
 * Huey: What is it granddad>
 * Granddad: These dummies runnin around screaming about reparations for slavery. I tell ya, it don’t make no sense.
 * Huey: Interesting…you don’t think they’re deserved?
 * Granddad: Deserved ain’t got nothing to do with it. It ain’t never gonna happen. What are the odds of white folk’s ever giving us reparations?
 * Huey: Slim, but what are the odds of you ever winning that lottery you’ve played every week for the last two decades?
 * Granddad: You know boy… I don’t recall ever asking you to think…
 * Huey: How thoughtless of me –
 * (8/27/2000)

 * Huey: Hip-hop is no longer an effective tool to bring knowledge to the black masses. The revolution must turn to the more traditional print media. I’m going to start a newsletter or newspaper that will bring the light of truth to the diaspora! Unadulterated by capitalist blood money, it will be a new weapon in the fight against the system that mentally enslaves our people!
 * Caesar: Kind of like “The Final Call”?
 * Huey: Sorta, without the religious affiliation or high journalistic standards.
 * (9/6/2000)

 * Riley: Man, you’re wasting your time. I couldn’t care less about these guys – they’re all the same to me.
 * Huey: Listen, you like guns right?
 * Riley: Yeah.
 * Huey: Well, G.W. Bush will let you carry guns anywhere you want – work, school, church, wherever.
 * Riley: Word?!
 * Huey: He’ll also install electric chairs in every courtroom and jail cells for no-wait executions.
 * Riley: Whoa…this political $#!% aint’s no joke!!
 * (10/18/2000)

 * Huey: Ok, now thisguy is Ralph Nader. If he wins, he’ll decriminalize drugs.
 * Riley: Are you serious?!! You mean, I could be a drug kingpin like Scarface, but I won’t ever have to worry about going to jail?!! He’s the man!!
 * Huey: Of course, you realize government regulation and distribution of narcotics would instantly destroy their monetary value. There would be no more drug kingpins.
 * Riley: Aw man…he’s hatin’ on the game? Get him out of here!!
 * (10/20/2000)

 * Thomas Dubois: So…we started arguing about Nader, and I called her a hussy and a floozy, and I think “electoral harlot” – something like that. I’m such an idiot… Anyway, that’s when she threw me out and told me not to come back until I learned some respect.
 * Huey: You wouldn’t be leaving out the part where she beat you like you stole something, would you?
 * Thomas Dubois: It was a lucky punch!!
 * (11/10/2000).

 * Granddad: Ok, boys. Mr. Dubois will be staying with us for a couple of days while he works out some family issues. <br? He’s your elder, and you will show him respect, no more jokes, any questions?
 * Riley: Yeah, you ever been kicked out your own house by a woman, granddad?
 * Grandad: What?! Hell no, boy. I’m a man – shoot.
 * Thomas Dubois: sigh…
 * (11/14/2000)

 * Huey: I don’t get this whole thing with video games.
 * Riley: What, you mean why you keep losing?
 * Huey: No, everyone is worried about kids and violence, right? And kids using guns – so why don’t they go after the gun manufacturers and gun dealers instead of people who make video games, it doesn’t make sense.
 * Riley: Sure it does, pretend your some stupid parents activist person… Who would you rather start a beef with – some nerd who makes video games, or some dude with a warehouse full of AK-47s?
 * Huey: You know – I’m actually much more impressed by that point than I care to admit.
 * Riley: Of course, I’m deep, just don’t tell nobody.
 * (11/19/2000)

 * Riley: See, Huey, I don’t need any dirt on Santa to blackmail him. I just need to be vague enough to make him think I’ve got some dirt. Check this out.

 * Dear Santa, I know all about the reindeer, the money and the “elf incident.” I’ve got pictures. A Playstation 2 or I tell Mrs. Claus.
 * ’Huey: Brilliant. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it first.
 * Riley: How does it feel not to be the smart one anymore?
 * (12/23/2000)

 * Thomas Dubois: Happy new year Huey!
 * Huey: Well, I know none of the negroes in this house care, but it’s also the last day of Kwanzaa. Today is the day of assessment – a day when Africans somberly meditate on things done and things yet to do. But I guess I’m the only one concerned about reconnecting with his African culture. So never mind…
 * Thomas Dubois: But I was just watchin’ CNN and I saw some Africans getting’ their New Year’s party on…
 * Huey: Well, tell ‘em Ron Karenga said they wrong!!
 * (1/1/2001)

 * Thomas Dubois: Y’know, I think part of the problem with Kwanzaa is it kinda perpetuates this fallacy of a monolithic “African Culture”
 * Huey: Hmm…expound…
 * Thomas Dubois: The intent is good, but the holiday ignores the variety and diversity of African cultures in favor of something oversimplified…even…generic.
 * Huey: Interesting, I think I can consider that a fair critique.
 * Thomas Dubois: And what’s with the candles? What is this, some kinda low-budget Hanukkah?
 * Huey: All right, all right! I get the point!
 * (1/2/2001)

 * Huey: Still researching an alias?
 * Riley: Yep.
 * Huey: I imagine you’ve read about every single Third World dictator, mob boss, drug lord and terrorist who ever lived?
 * Riley: Yep
 * Huey: Isn’t it ironic that you have to do research even as you strive for the depths of ignorance?
 * Riley: Ironic, that you’re talking but I’m not actually listening to you.
 * (1/12/2000)

 * Thomas Dubois: Oh, Sarah, I’m so glad we had this talk.
 * Sarah Dubois: Me too.
 * Thomas Dubois: I totally overreacted to this whole thing. I thought you had become one of these lunatic, socialist, vegetarian, militant – psychopaths.
 * Huey’: Hello?! I’m still here, you know!!
 * Thomas Dubois: Ooops! Sorry, Huey.
 * (2/14/2000)

 * Huey: So Dr. Dre sues Napster for copyright violation, even as he is getting sued by George Lucas for copyright violation. And while he s quick to sue others, Lucas seems to have “borrowed” James Gurney’s “Dinotopia” artwork and concepts for “Star Wars: Episode I”.
 * Caesar: Hmm…
 * Huey: You know what I think? I think all art belongs to the masses! The greed and hypocrisy must end!
 * The opinions expressed by Aaron McGruder are not necessarily those of Aaron McGruder. All images are (copyright symbol) Aaron McGruder, 2001. Any unauthorized reproduction will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
 * (2/24/2001)

 * Censored This comic contains numerous references to the DeCSS code used to bypass the Content Scrambling System of DVD’s, which, by order of Judge Lewis Kapalan, is illegal to reproduce in any way. We apologize for the inconvenience, but speech that damages the profits of our corporate friends is NOT protected by the first Amendment. Thank you.
 * (3/2/2001)

 * Huey: Mr. Petto, I have a question.
 * Mr. Petto: Yes.
 * Huey: Why is it perfectly legal to post a diagram of how to build a bomb on the net, but you can’t post a code that descrambles DVDs?
 * Censored We just didn’t like where he’s going with this.
 * (3/3/2001)

 * Huey: Days like this, I look out at all the snow and think. Man, this is beautiful… Then I wonder – is it really beautiful, or have we just been conditioned to think of everything “white” as beautiful? Is my mind, perhaps, not as liberated from the slave mentality as I thought? Then I think, what if snow were brown? Would I find it as nice to look at, or would it look “dirty”> Is this indicative that somewhere within my subconscious lurks some heretofore undiscovered self-hate?
 * Huey: Days like this, I look out at all the snow and think. Man, this is beautiful… Then I wonder – is it really beautiful, or have we just been conditioned to think of everything “white” as beautiful? Is my mind, perhaps, not as liberated from the slave mentality as I thought? Then I think, what if snow were brown? Would I find it as nice to look at, or would it look “dirty”? Is this indicative that somewhere within my subconscious lurks some heretofore undiscovered self-hate?
 * Caesar: I don’t know how much an hour of therapy costs, but I think that’s gonna be your Christmas gift from me.
 * Huey: I wonder how Farrakhan feels about snow…
 * (12/10/2000)

 * Caesar: You’re insane!!! Tobogganning is not an extreme sport!
 * Huey: It most certainly is. and like skydiving and bungee jumping, it’s strictly for crazy, white suburbanites whose lives are so comfortable they have to make up new ways to kill themselves just to get an adrenaline rush – no thank you. Reckless suicides are counterrevolutionary.
 * Caesar: This has nothing to do with the revolution – you’re just scared!!!
 * Huey: Uh-huh … I bet the Bush regime would just love for me to bust my head against that tree right there – but it ain’t gonna happen!!
 * (2/11/2001)

 * Granddad: If you’re still not feeling well tomorrow, we’ll go see a doctor.
 * Huey: I’d rather not. Western medicine is too corrupted by capitalism. The goal of making money supersedes the goal of wellness – most doctors and pharmaceutical companies do not have our best interests at heart. I’d prefer a more reliable source of information.
 * Granddad: Like what, the internet?
 * Huey: I’m starting with everythingwillkillyou.com
 * (5/23/2001)

 * TV News: Addressing a crowd of supporters in Texas today, president Bush continued to stress his limits on Stem-Cell research and human cloning. “Technology is charging forward at a frightening speed, and we must steady it’s pace with the reins of humanity.” There are many exciting things this Brave New World opens up, for example: giant, two-headed mutant soldiers with four or more arms. Soldiers that could save countless American lives on the battlefield.” But could I reconcile the ethical and moral dilemmas such super-commandos would present? Probably not-"
 * (8/20/2001)

 * TV News: Senator Trent Lott reiterated the critical need for genetically enhanced super-commandos with multiple heads and appendages, saying "I'm confident the president will do right by America's armed forces." Meanwhile, the Japanese government announced that it was already well on its way to creating a three-headed soldier with wings and cybernetically implanted machine guns. They are promising to pour millions into further human cloning projects with the hope of "Making real life more like our really, really cool cartoons."
 * (8/23/2001)

 * Huey: Hello? Is this the FBI’s anonymous terrorism tip line?
 * FBI: That’s correct, Mr. Freeman. What have you got for us?
 * Huey: Anonymous?!
 * FBI: Oh, spare me the surprised indignation, Huey. You know we’ve been tapping your phone for years. Watcha got?
 * (10/3/2001)

 * [Huey squeals to the Feds’ terrorism hotline -]
 * Huey: Why do you keep hanging up on me? I’m telling you the truth! The CIA trained Osama Bin Laden in using terrorism against the soviets during the Reagan-Bush administration they gave the Afghanistan rebels countless amounts of covert funding!
 * FBI’: Don’t you have better things to be doing?
 * Huey: Better than fighting terrorism? Heck no! We’re at war!!
 * (10/5/2001)

 * Huey: Hello, Jeb? I’m sorry to bother you at home, but I had a nightmare last night that someone who looked kinda like your daughter broke into my house and stole our television so she could feed her crack addiction. But then I remembered that you had the courage to speak out against an initiative to provide treatment instead of incarceration for addicts arrested on drug possession charges. I just wanted you to know how glad I am that someone has the courage to stop making excuses for the criminals and make things safe for decent law-abiding – Hello?
 * (10/6/2001)

 * Huey helps the FBI wage war on terrorism
 * Huey: Wait, before you hang up. I have one more important tip! G.W. Bush gave the Taliban government $4.3 million this May! This May!! How much of that money will be spent on weaponry that will be used against U.S. soldiers?
 * FBI: Wow – I didn’t know that …
 * Huey: He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania – hey, are you writing this down? And I suggest bringing really tight handcuffs.
 * (10/8/2001)

 * Editor’s Note Due to the inappropriate political content of this feature in recent weeks, it is being replaced by “The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon,” which we hope will help children understand the complexities of current events. United We Stand.
 * Ribbon: Hey, Flagee. There’s a lot of evil out there.
 * Flagee: That’s right, Ribbon. Good thing America kicks a lot of *@#!

 * HEY, KIDS!! Get your very own official FLAGEE AND RIBBON ACTION FIGURES!! Just $19.95 plus $4.95 shipping. Order today – operators are standing by! Some percentage of the proceeds to be donated to somebody.
 * (10/17/2001)

 * Editor’s Note Despite the tremendous reader response to “The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon,” we have decided to bring back “The Boondocks” on a probationary basis. However, should material be deemed inappropriate, we are prepared to bring back “Flagee and Ribbon” at a moment’s notice. United We Stand.
 * Huey: Mr. Petto, how come nobody is talking about the ways that Bush’s big-oil compadres will benefit from this “war on terrorism”?
 * Ribbon: Hey, flagee, can we sing “the star-spangled banner” again?
 * Flagee: Of course, Ribbon. It’s our national anthem!
 * (12/22/2001)

 * Granddad: How you feelin’ this morning boy?
 * Huey’: Not bad.
 * News: The FBI would like to remind the public, yet again that massive death and destruction are imminent at an unknown time and place. Have a great day.
 * Granddad: It’s not too late to change your answer.
 * Huey: That’s good…
 * (11/13/2001)

 * [Huey is leading Thanksgiving grace.]
 * Huey: Ahem. In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents, and uses war to deny people their civil liberties. Amen.
 * Robert: This is the last time you say grace, boy.
 * (11/22/2001)

 * Huey: I as thinkin’ let’s say – hypothetically – Santa can actually go to every house on the planet in one night… He uses that power to give kids a bunch of junk they don’t need! He could deliver food every day to starving kids! Drop off medicine to underdeveloped countries!
 * Caesar: I never thought of it like that.
 * Huey: Santa just made the hate book!!
 * (12/14/2001)

 * Huey: …and what I’m saying is that America’s whole Mideast policy is –
 * Granddad: Boy?
 * Huey: yes?
 * Granddad: It’s Christmas.
 * Huey: So?
 * Granddad: So please get in the spirit of the holiday and give the anti-war stuff a rest, sheesh…
 * (12/23/2001)

 * Huey: For the new year, I’ve resolved to love and embrace all human beings. Of course, part of showing love is whuppin’ someone’s rear end when they need it.
 * Caesar: That’s a touching sentiment.
 * Huey: It’ll hurt me more than it hurts them.
 * (12/31/2001)

 * Attention Concerned parents: Today’s episode features Granddad demonstrating responsible parenting, playing the controversial video game “Grand Theft Auto 3” to answer any questions he may have and to reinforce the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. We suggest all those with young children take note. Thank you.
 * Granddad: Good aim boy! But remember that in real life, it’s very, very wrong to throw a grenade at an ambulance.
 * Riley: Yes, Grandad.
 * (1/18/2002)

 * FBI: FBI terrorism tip line.
 * Huey: It’s Huey again. Got another hot lead on a terrorist.
 * FBI: Lord…Huey, we don’t have time for this. I’m hanging up.
 * Huey: Wait! I got a good one this time!
 * FBI: (sigh) .. (Uh-huh…
 * Huey: Kissinger, Henry, Former secretary of state under Nixon, allegedly responsible for the deaths of about 950,000 civilians in Laos and Cambodia in the early 1970s. if you’re having trouble finding him, ask the guys who gave him the Nobel peace prize. Hello?
 * (1/22/2002)

 * Riley: Why do you spend all day working on that book when you don’t get paid for it?
 * Huey: So that I leave something for the world that will outlast my short time here.
 * Riley: Why don’t I ever understand anything you say?
 * Huey: Because I don’t have a platinum chain around my neck. Now shoo…
 * (1/24/2002)

 * Huey: I know it’s old news, but something has always bothered me about this whole “shoe bomber” thing –
 * Caesar: And that would be?
 * Huey: So this guy was thwarted trying to light a match. Right?
 * Caesar: Yeah…
 * Huey: So he fit explosives in one shoe – he couldn’t fit a lighter in the other?
 * (1/31/2002)

 * Riley: Huey, do you ever have nightmares?
 * Huey: Yes. Sometimes I’m afraid I’ll become a political prisoner of the Bush administration – jailed for life – my only crime the struggle for justice.
 * Riley: Okay, but – nothing as bad as my dream of growing old without ever owning a set of 22- rims, right?
 * Huey: No, of course not.
 * (2/13/2002)

 * Huey:Riley, I know you want to live like these videos on B.E.T. – with all the cars and women and yachts and all that… But nobody actually lives like that, Riley.
 * Riley: Really?! Nobody?!
 * Huey: Nobody.
 * Riley: Nobody?!
 * Huey: Okay, maybe Hugh Hefner, some arab shieks, a handful of NBA players and Wesley Snipes, but that’s it!
 * (2/14/2002)

 * Huey: Granddad, due to the bizarre instance of Condoleezza Rice receiving an NAACP image award, we have reason to believe Kweisi Mfume may have been covertly cloned and replaced with an evil twin… Or, we think they may have kidnapped one of his relatives and suspended them over a vat of boiling acid. Either way, we want to go investigate. Can we get a ride to Baltimore?
 * Granddad: No.
 * Huey: You know, this revolution would move a lot faster if we could drive.
 * Caesar: Not to change subjects, but … why are all the cookies on your side of the table?
 * (3/2/2002)

 * Caesar: The Bush administration is accusing Zimbabwe’s president of rigging the election over there… I wonder if this is what they mean when they say political satire is dead.
 * Huey: I’m going to go vomit.
 * (3/27/2002)

 * Caesar: Huey, why are you worried about dying young? It doesn’t make any sense.
 * Huey: Sure it does… We have an underground newspaper and a web site that puts out the truth that the powers that be don’t want the people to hear. We must be prepared for the worst!
 * Caesar: We have eleven readers!!
 * Huey: That’s eleven more than they want us to have…
 * (4/12/2002)

 * Cosplayer: People think I’m stupid for sitting in front of the theater for weeks waiting for “Episode 2” when “Episode 1” was so terrible. But I say, what happened to loyalty? Let’s say your home team never wins a game. Is it stupid to continue to support them?
 * Huey: Possibly, I don’t really follow sports.
 * Cosplayer: Well, then how about politics? Is everyone who voted for Al Gore stupid if they keep supporting the democratic –
 * Huey: Yes.
 * (5/11/2002)

 * Huey: I’m telling you – free speech is a myth! A fantasy! All of the ugly truths in this society are hidden from the public.
 * Caesar: But you speak out against the government all the time.
 * Huey: That’s nothing – acceptable dissent is not considered a threat to the power structure, besides, it’s not just the government that suppresses information – it’s the media conglomerates – the monopolies who control nearly everything we see, hear and read in mass media… And here’s how they do it. Bribes to government officials, illegal business dealing. I’ve researched the evidence to prove how less than a dozen men have acquired a stranglehold on communication and information, and nothing can stop me from telling the world. Wanna hear?
 * Caesar: Absolutely!

 * Hey Caesar – that George W. Bush sure is stupid!
 * Caesar: Fascinating…
 * (5/26/2002)

 * Caesar: If you were president what would be the first thing you’d do?
 * Huey: You mean after my untimely passing during the inauguration ceremony?
 * (8/4/2002)

 * Caesar: …But what I really don’t get is synchronized dancing in videos, are we really to believe that Usher has half a dozen people following him everywhere he goes, dancing exactly like he does? And if so, why would he want anyone to think that? It looks ridiculous? And is it possible that Tricky Daddy isn’t just in it for the money, but is actually a serious artist who can’t help but express his innermost feelings through the universal language of music? What do you think? And speaking of music…do you think rappers like Ludacris (rapper)]Ludacris are at all concerned that their names may create the false perception that they can’t spell?
 * Huey: I think when our conversations become this inane, it’s actually time to go back to school…
 * (8/25/2002)

 * Huey: My horoscope is a little strange today.
 * Caesar: What’s it say?
 * Huey: “You will continue to fight a losing battle against the corrupt corporate and government powers-that-be. Regardless of how loudly you shout the truth from the mountaintop, your words will be dismissed as the rantings of paranoid, leftist, anti-American, radical, loony, find a hobby.”
 * Caesar: Whoa…what’s mine say?
 * Huey: It say’s “Despite your charm and youthful exuberance, neither Beyonce Knowles nor anyone who looks like Beyonce Knowles will fall madly in love with you today.”
 * Caesar: That’s all I needed to know. I’m goin back to bed.
 * (9/8/2002)

 * Caesar: Whoa, some people in other countries are comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler because of his warmongering.
 * Huey: That’s preposterous, even I would never compare Bush to Hitler… I mean, Hitler was democratically elected, wasn’t he?
 * (10/13/2002)

 * Huey: So colonel, you guys aren’t dropping food anymore? What happened to all that concern about the starving Afghan people?
 * Pentagon:Yeah, well…they’re not, uh, starving anymore.
 * Huey: Is that right?
 * Pentagon: Yep. They told us they’re all full now. Couldn’t eat another bite.
 * Huey: Amazing, I wonder what was in those food packets.
 * Pentagon: Well, that’s classified but…let’s just say a snickers really satisfies…
 * (9/20/2002)

 * Flagee: You see, Ribbon. We have to stop Iraq because they might develop weapons of mass destruction!
 * Ribbon: Gee whillikers. Flagee, I’m confused!
 * Ribbon: The Reagan/Bush administration helped Hussein plan and execute chemical weapon attacks against Iran in the '80s!
 * Flagee: Where did you read that leftist conspiracy madness, ribbon?
 * Ribbon: The New York Times.
 * Flagee: Well, from now on, only Fox News for you!!
 * (9/25/2002)

 [Huey is writing a letter to the president]
 * Dear Mr. “President,” I am writing in the hopes of convincing you that war is not the solution to America’s problems.
 * Caesar: Remember, the key to communicating with Dubya is to keep it simple. Get your point across in a way he’ll understand.
 * First of all, the administration on "The West Wing" would never EVER do what you're about to do. :Caesar: Excellent start! Now we're getting somewhere!
 * (10/2/2002)

 * [[Huey composes a plea for peace…]
 * And so, Mr. “President,” there are many reasons to avoid war. First is to avoid massive loss of life.
 * Caesar: Good…
 * Second, to avoid antagonizing the international community, most of whom oppose war…
 * Caesar: Logical, sincere, very good…
 * Third, to repair the long and intimate friendship your father had with Saddam Hussein during the Iran/Iraq war-
 * Caesar: Easy! You’re going cynical! Watch it!
 * (10/3/2002)

 * Huey: Okay, horoscopes – let’s see… here I am…
 * Caesar: What’s it say?
 * Huey: “Your efforts to deliver the world from the corrupt grasp of those in power will only leave you a broken and bitter individual. Incapable of seeing the beauty and joy’s of life. “And while your paranoia does not necessarily mean they aren’t out to get you, finding hobbies separate and apart from leftist radicalism will significantly improve your interactions with friends and family."
 * Caesar: Weird how accurate these things can be sometimes, huh?
 * Huey’: What do you mean?
 * (10/27/2002)

 * Huey: Who cares about what Hip-Hop is supposed to be? I’m talking about what it is. Most of rap music is violent and stupid, and that ain’t the media’s fault!
 * Caesar: But most entertainment across the board is violent. You don’t see people attacking Robert De Niro for being violent in movies!
 * Huey: But in movies, everyone acknowledges it’s fake! Robert De Niro doesn’t kill someone in a movie, then look at the audience and go, “Bobby D. Fool, what?!”
 * Caesar: But, man it’d be cool if he did, though, right?
 * (11/14/2002).

 * Huey: Look, rap, for he most part, has been stuck in the “Gangsta Rap” era for over ten years now – mostly because it sells so well to white kids. But rap doesn’t clearly draw the line between fact and fiction. The whole point seems to be to make people believe that made-up gangster tales are true.
 * ’Caesar: Now waitamnute – I know you’re not trying to imply that Ja Rule isn’t really a killer. Me and you ‘bout to fight.
 * Huey: Never mind.
 * (11/15/2002)

 [Huey is writing a letter to Al-Qaida]
 * Dear Al-Qaida, Thought you might like to hear my suggestions on how to bring the Western World to humiliating ruin - Step 1: Flood the United states with as many covert operatives as possible over the next two years. Step 2: Order them to vote Republican in the 2004 election. Step 3: Kick feet up and wait for most of world to be destroyed. Claim responsibility.
 * (11/30/2002)

 * Huey: I don't get it. What's the significance of the name change? What's "P.Diddy" supposed to mean?
 * Ceasar: Well... what can it rhyme with? "P.Diddy"... Let's see... Witty... Kitty... City... Biddy... Doesn't seem clear.
 * Huey: What about sh-
 * Ceasar: Stop that.

 * Ceasar: I can't believe they still have Ms Cleo on the run. I hope she's ok.
 * [The phone rings.]
 * Huey: I guess I gotta go get that... [picks up the phone] Hello? This is he... Ok, good... Good... Excellent... Well, thanks for calling.... Take care. [hangs up]
 * Huey: She's fine, and she says thanks for asking.
 * Ceasar: Cool.

 [Huey calls the FBI's terrorism tip line...]
 * Huey:: I'm very serious. I know of several Americans who helped train and finance Osama bin Laden.
 * Speaker:: And how did you come by this information?
 * Huey:: A little investigating. It wasn't that hard, actually.
 * Speaker:: Okay, give me some names.
 * Huey:: All right, let's see ... the first one is Reagan. That' R-E-A-G ... Hello? Hello?

 * Huey:: They always say I'm against the troops. I'm completely for the troops. Why, just last week I sent the president a 50 page "support our troops" resolution giving U.S. Soldiers or their families perpetual revenues from Iraqi Oil.
 * Caeser:: I'm going to miss you when they pass "Patriot Act 2"

 * [Huey is debating whether or not to see Attack of the Clones
 * Huey: See, on the one hand, I'm still mad at that whole Jar Jar Binks Sambo bit in Episode I. On the other hand, we have Sam "Foot to Rear End" Jackson choppin' heads with a purple lightsaber.  I just don't know what to do...

 * Huey: "And the winner of the "Black Artist Most Likely to Commit a sexual offense involving a twelve-year-old" award is...
 * [pause]
 * Huey: Y'know, it's bad enough we even have to have this award, but... It's a tie!

 * New Slang Alert: Brokeback (adj) - Used to describe anything of questionable masculinity. Believed to have originated from 2005 motion picture: Brokeback Mountain  Here's how to use it in daily conversation:
 * Granddad: It's not a purse! It's a man-bag! It's very manly!
 * Riley: I don't know, Granddad... looks kinda Brokeback to me...

 * Huey: Give me news of hope, Ceasar. Tell me of the leaders who dare to stand against the grave dangers faced by this world.  I crave inspiration.
 * Ceasar: Says here Al Sharpton is protesting a cartoon for using the N-word."
 * [silence]
 * Huey: I'm going back to bed.

 * TV News:...And today in sports, a black man somewhere ran with a ball and jumped with a ball and threw a ball and people got really excited as if they hadn't seen it a million times before... ...Next, we'll pretend like we can predict the weather...
 * Huey:: I definitely don't hear the same news as other people.

 [Huey is writing a review of The Matrix Reloaded]
 * It's important to note that not all moviegoers have been kind to the Matrix sequel. Many have complained that the movie is confusing, and I would have to agree. With so many black people in the movie, it was impossible to predict who would die first.

 * Ceasar:: You know, people say the best way to make good things happen is to put positive thoughts out into the universe.
 * Huey:: [thinking] Queen Latifa versus Ann Coulter in a steel cage deathmatch... Queen Latifah verses Ann Coulter in a steel cage deathmatch...

 * Huey:: Mr. Jones, it's Huey. You ready?
 * James Earl Jones::Young man, I told you last time this isn't funny. You're going to get us both in trouble.
 * Huey:: Last time, I promise. Hold on.  [Opens a three-way call]
 * George W. Bush:: [Answers the phone] This is Bush.
 * Huey:: Mr. President, please hold for Darth Vader.
 * James Earl Jones:: [In full Vader voice] President Bush, this is Darth Vader... I wanted to thank you for helping spread Evil throughout the galaxy!
 * George W. Bush:: Uh... Thank you, Lord Vader!

 * Tom: Huey, why did you tell Jazmine that Santa Claus is on Death Row in Hungary?
 * Huey: For the same reason you told her that Santa flies around the world passing out gifts with the help of magical reindeer. I guess we both really enjoy lying to small children.
 * Tom: IT'S NOT THE SAME!

 * Huey: See, I told you.
 * Caesar: I can't believe it.
 * Huey: I've known some self-hating black people before, but this takes the cake.
 * Caesar: Oooh, we're next... Merry Christmas!
 * Uncle Ruckus: I hope you chimpanzees don't have a chimney.

 ''[Huey and Riley are outside. Riley has opened a fire hydrant to cool down. People are staring.]''
 * Riley: WHAT?! Y'ALL AFRAID OF GETTIN' WET!
 * Huey: Riley. White people have pools.

[Riley is stunned.]

 * Caesar: Why are you so quiet?
 * Huey: Huh?
 * Caesar: You seen the news today? War, corruption... Tyler Perry movies! Why aren't you complaining?
 * Huey:: I don't know. I just... don't have anything to say.

''[Ceasar stares at Huey before turning to look at the reader. Caesar turns back to Huey.]''
 * Caesar: WELL, IT'S ABOUT TIME!

About

 * Q: You started addressing the terrorist attacks on Sept. 24. You got to it faster than other strip creators. What influenced that?
 * A: One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late. The only other cartoonist that would address it head on is Garry Trudeau, and being the better cartoonist, he gets his strips in a couple days earlier than I do ... So I had more time to really think about it. [Also,] I think he didn't want to get into it that week. It was a big debate for me whether or not to do it so soon.

 * Q: Do you pull back from ideas that seem too inflammatory or controversial?
 * A: Yeah! That's not just now, that's always. ... Especially when you're somebody that likes to talk about the president, there's just so much you can't say, for legal reasons ... You have to be very careful to never threaten the president. There has been only once in the past few weeks that the wording of a strip had to actually be changed for that reason. The editors looked at it ... it was one of the strips where Huey was calling the FBI [terrorist] hotline [to report George W. Bush] and the strip ended with, "Make sure you bring the really tight handcuffs." He was talking about going to the White House. It was originally written as, "Make sure you bring nightsticks." They said, "You know, that's not a good idea." And I said, "You're right."
 * Q: You get to address race, class and biracial issues, and the bullshit of politics. How satisfying is it to have a place to vent every day?
 * A: It's really satisfying sometimes, and sometimes you just don't have anything to talk about. You're like, "You know what? I'm not passionate about anything this week. I just want to relax." Certainly at a time like this, when you're sort of sitting home screaming at the television, you're like, "Oh wait, I don't have to scream at the television. I actually have a big voice" ... Then it's really, really good.

 * Q: How closely do Huey's opinions come to your own?
 * A: It would be inaccurate to say that Huey's opinions are my own. I think there's a broad opinion being put out through the strip with a combination of all the characters' voices, and it's really up to the reader to figure out what that is. Beyond that, I don't think the importance of the strip is about my own personal political agenda. I think the strip [challenges] people to think differently, and that to me is far more important than to have people thinking like me -- [I want] to have people questioning what they're told on a daily basis.
 * Aaron Mcgruder in “Boondocks Speaks: An Interview with Aaron McGruder“, by By Jennifer A. Carbin, Philadelphia City Paper, AlterNet, (November 4, 2001).

 * McGruder doesn't shy away from controversy. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, McGruder drew a series of strips featuring a talking American flag and a yellow ribbon -- and they had very critical things to say about the Patriot Act and the Bush administration. Some newspapers dropped those strips entirely.
 * Karen Grigsby Bates, “The Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder“, NPR, (October 13, 2003)

 * There are two things people really want to know about the cartoonist Aaron McGruder. The first is precisely what he said to Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, at an awards ceremony three years ago. Rice and McGruder, 32, were both being given an award by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, the oldest civil rights organisation in the country. Beforehand, McGruder had told anyone who would listen that Rice was a mass murderer (it was not long after the invasion of Afghanistan) and that he would have no qualms about telling her so to her face. With McGruder's help, rumours about their subsequent exchange became legend. "I was never as cavalier with her as I sounded," he says now. "I had a brief encounter with her and I knew I had to say something. I said something like: 'I don't want you guys to kill me so I'm just going to mind my own business.' I was eminently aware when I met Condi that she could make my whole family disappear. I have never been fearless. I've always had a healthy fear of this government."
 * Aaron McGruder in "Strip Tease" by Gary Younge, The Guardian, (21 Dec 2005).

 * I don’t remember what those kids were doing in the first ‘’’Boondocks’’’ comic I saw, but I do remember exactly what passed through my mind when I read it: “How the hell did this get into a daily newspaper?”
 * Michael Moore, The Boondocks Treasury: A Right to be Hostile, Forward, Aaron McGruder, (2003).

title: The Boondocks (comic strip)