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" Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying. "

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" We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things. "

Kenya Barris

Change

Trying

Things

" I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.' "

" No one's pro-police brutality. "

Kenya Barris

Brutality

" No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times. "

" At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money. "

Kenya Barris

Friends

Money

" 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

Together

Back

" As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly. "

" The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid. "

Kenya Barris

Black

Remember

" I love Donald Glover. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C. "

" I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships. "

" I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. "

" 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

Black

Know

" ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. "

" 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. "

" '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

World

" Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids. "