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" For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. "
Kenya Barris
Growing
War
Big Things
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" The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it. "
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Been
Culture
" 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
" Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times. "
Kenya Barris
Good
Good Times
Sometimes
" There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong. "
Kenya Barris
Wrong
Country
Never
" Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have. "
Kenya Barris
Life
Dream
Pressure
" 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
" For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.' "
Kenya Barris
Important
Name
Me
" I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders. "
Kenya Barris
Society
People
Think
" 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
" I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people. "
Kenya Barris
Black
Support
Like
" No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. "
Kenya Barris
Movement
Without
White
" When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.' "
Kenya Barris
Alone
Tough Times
Relationship
" 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'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters. "
Kenya Barris
Me
Love
Writing
" Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice. "
Kenya Barris
Find
Tell
Story
" Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C. "
Kenya Barris
Daughter
Who
Goes
" It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy. "
Kenya Barris
Take
Hard
Happy
" 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. "
Kenya Barris
People
Think
You
" To me, the Peabody was as big if not bigger than any award, but I do understand an Emmy Award-winning show has a different buzz when it comes to start talking about renewals and things like that. There's a professional something to it that matters. "
Kenya Barris
Talking
Me
Start
" I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality. "
Kenya Barris
Mentality
Best
Expect
" At my core, I'm shy. "
Kenya Barris
Shy
Core
" 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. "
Kenya Barris
Me
Together
Back
" I'm doing another pilot about a black Democratic pundit who's married to a white Republican pundit. And the purpose of me wanting to do that show - and ABC sort of supported me in the way they did - is because I feel like, you know, the political system is like an old married couple. "
Kenya Barris
Me
Black
Know
" 'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home. "
Kenya Barris
Black
Me
World
" As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood. "
Kenya Barris
People
Honesty
Wild
" I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular. "
Kenya Barris
I Am What I Am
Writer
Because
" I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way. "
Kenya Barris
You
Feel
Look
" 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
" 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 kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid. "
Kenya Barris
Like
Black
Remember