Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice. "

Related Quotes:

" Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid. "

" I will be so happy when 'diversity' is not a word. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's never really been a true apology for slavery. "

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

" 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. "

" No one's pro-police brutality. "

" 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. "

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

" I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way. "

" Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences. "

" My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name. "

" I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" I love Donald Glover. "

" For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent. "

" 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. "

" 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 think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders. "

" What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die. "

" 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. "

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

" Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have. "