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" I don't know Channing Dungey well, but we have talked several times, and she seems like an amazing executive. "
Kenya Barris
She
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Amazing
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" 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
" 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
" No one's pro-police brutality. "
Kenya Barris
Brutality
" I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it. "
Kenya Barris
Black
Stop
Story
" For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.' "
Kenya Barris
Important
Name
Me
" At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money. "
Kenya Barris
Friends
More
Money
" 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
" When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are. "
Kenya Barris
Trying
Accomplishment
College
" Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything. "
Kenya Barris
Great
Dances
Everything
" I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. "
Kenya Barris
Humor
Things
Did
" Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe. "
Kenya Barris
Moments
Best
Together
" I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like. "
Kenya Barris
Day
Family
World
" 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
" I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position. "
Kenya Barris
Mad
Character
Voice
" ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. "
Kenya Barris
World
Trade
Show
" I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump - because they saw what they believed was going to be hope and change, and under Obama, their particular lives did not change. "
Kenya Barris
Going
Change
Who
" There's never really been a true apology for slavery. "
Kenya Barris
Apology
Been
Never
" I will be so happy when 'diversity' is not a word. "
Kenya Barris
Will
Diversity
Word
" 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
" 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
" At my core, I'm shy. "
Kenya Barris
Shy
Core
" 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 would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it. "
Kenya Barris
Place
Style
Say
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series. "
Kenya Barris
Community
Show
Proud
" 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'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
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