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" 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. "

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" There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure. "

Courtney A. Kemp

Create

Success

Things

" 50 Cent is a brilliant marketer. "

" Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. "

" I love Pusha T and The Clipse. "

Courtney A. Kemp

Love

I Love

" I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength. "

" When I'm at work, I want to be with my daughter, and when I'm with my daughter, I probably should be working, and it just is what it is. "

" I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore. "

" You don't keep your job if you don't make a great show. "

" When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the language our characters spoke to be as specific as possible, to reflect New York as it is. "

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

" It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm. "

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

" What I'm about to say won't be popular, but it's true: If being a television showrunner is the job you want, and you are a woman, I would not suggest you have children. The reality is that you just cannot do both well. "

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

" I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites. "

" 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. "

" 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 think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it. "

" There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry. "

" The story always leads you where it's supposed to go. "

Courtney A. Kemp

You

Where

" The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. "

Courtney A. Kemp

Family

Black

" When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood. "

Courtney A. Kemp

Imagination

Girl

" I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid. "

" God is in control of everything. "

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

" I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I felt different from everybody else. "

Courtney A. Kemp

Class

Race

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

" I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up. "

" If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills. "

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