Quote by Norman Lear
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was thats not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. – Norman Lear

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. Theyre all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. – Norman Lear

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