Quotes & Jokes by Donald Glover / page 5

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

Took the G out your waffle all you have left is your ego.

A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.

People say I've changed and I tell em that I'm glad 'cause I don't wanna stay the same.

I hate it when you really think you're getting something good... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

To all my fans who’s saying Donald Glover about to blow, just give me six months so you can say I told you so.

Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone’s blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

I don’t know if this is a nerdy quality or just something left over from my uncle’s alcoholism, but I get obsessed with things very easily, things that don’t matter. I think that is a very nerdy quality to be like, “Oh this thing! I love it and I’m going to learn everything about it real soon.”

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

When we were making out you kinda acted like it was nothing. Like you were doing it to prove you could do it or something.

Girls who used to tell me I ain't cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up!

I wish I was a book. She could pick me up, flip through my pages. Make sure nobody drew wieners in me.