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" 50 Cent is a brilliant marketer. "
Courtney A. Kemp
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" I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find my voice. "
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" 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. "
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" It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky. "
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" When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban. "
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" When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit. "
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" 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. "
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" Knowing what I don't know helps me every day. "
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" If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills. "
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" My dad was born with no money. "
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" The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic. "
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" 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. "
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" I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?' "
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" In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe. "
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" 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. "
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" Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. "
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" There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry. "
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" Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff. "
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" Wherever I go, stuff accumulates. "
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" My experience as a black woman in the industry is simply that often I was the only one in the room. Often I would be the only woman and the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several women but the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several people of color, but the only woman. "
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" 50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It's just for the show. "
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" There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true. "
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" Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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