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All Quotes by author - Courtney A. Kemp

" 50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It's just for the show. "

" 50 Cent and I really started to bond over our love for music. The first conversations we had were about Curtis Mayfield. "

" 50 Cent is a brilliant marketer. "

" Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good versus evil, can you change yourself? These themes resonate for everyone. "

" Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood. "

" As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers. "

" As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me. "

" Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines. "

" Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. "

" Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready. "

" Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions. "

" God is in control of everything. "

" Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. "

" Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned. "

" Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't. "

" I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?' "

" I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out. "

" I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things. "

" I am a black woman, and I'm proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me unique beyond my race. "

" I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK. "

" I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway. "

" I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns. "

" I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me. "

" I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has a point of view that you as an audience member can understand. "

" I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about. "

" If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time. "

" I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried. "

" If I weren't a showrunner, I'd be a much more accomplished mother; if I were not a mother, I would be a much more accomplished showrunner. I have to be okay with getting a B in both. "

" If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other. "

" If you look at the back pages of 'New York Times Magazine,' and they talk about these 6.5-million-dollar condos with a great view, like you're going to pay for a great view. Well, the top floor of the projects have a great view, too. "

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