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" As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly. "
Kenya Barris
Head
Say
Ugly
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" Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences. "
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Together
Morals
Family
" My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew. "
Kenya Barris
First
You
Tell
" I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive. "
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People
Think
You
" Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid. "
Kenya Barris
Kid
You
Be Happy
" The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me. "
Kenya Barris
Goals
Holiday
Me
" After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me. "
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Me
Together
Back
" The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects. "
Kenya Barris
Face
You
World
" My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name. "
Kenya Barris
Civil Rights
Name
Me
" I love Donald Glover. "
Kenya Barris
Donald
I Love
Love
" I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house. "
Kenya Barris
People
Different
House
" For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. "
Kenya Barris
Growing
War
Big Things
" You can have good times with anyone, but it's really different and much more interesting when you look at how you get through the bad times with someone. "
Kenya Barris
Interesting
Good
You
" If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing. "
Kenya Barris
Race
White
Bad
" I love Meryl Streep. "
Kenya Barris
Meryl Streep
Love
I Love
" My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies. We weren't rich, but we were better off than I was growing up. And I looked around, and I was like, 'Who are these people?' It was the opposite of what I remembered growing up. "
Kenya Barris
Life
People
Wife
" The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it. "
Kenya Barris
Way
Been
Culture
" No one's pro-police brutality. "
Kenya Barris
Brutality
" And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents - we're used to things not going our way. "
Kenya Barris
Parents
Man
Culture
" My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects. "
Kenya Barris
Father
Classy
Got
" When you're in the middle of it, when you're a kid growing up, you don't think, 'This is my first heartbreak.' You just think, 'My heart is broken.' But then as a parent, you look back, and you see your child go through his or her first heartbreak, and you're realizing, 'Oh my God, this is her first heartbreak.' "
Kenya Barris
Think
God
Broken
" What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die. "
Kenya Barris
Want
Thought
Style
" I don't know Channing Dungey well, but we have talked several times, and she seems like an amazing executive. "
Kenya Barris
She
Know
Amazing
" As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in. "
Kenya Barris
Your
Want
People
" There's never really been a true apology for slavery. "
Kenya Barris
Apology
Been
Never
" You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over. "
Kenya Barris
World
Control
Start
" We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved. "
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Less
Supposed
Society
" ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. "
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World
Trade
Show
" I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why. He was a man who possibly did some really bad things, and he should be punished beyond a doubt. But that show, and the impact it had not just on black culture, but culture, was amazing. "
Kenya Barris
Man
Culture
Me
" It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy. "
Kenya Barris
Take
Hard
Happy
" I want to start really developing more on the film side. "
Kenya Barris
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