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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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Going
Color
White
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" My dad was born with no money. "
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" 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. "
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Great
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" When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine. "
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" I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism. "
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Thought
Journalism
" We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people. "
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Latino
Mean
" Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Air
Television
Show
" I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens. "
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Not Knowing
Fearless
Fashion
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Truth
Feel
Woman
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Strength
Love
Some
" I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me. "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
I Can
Want
" I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Cool
Thought
Think
" 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. "
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Work
Want
Just
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
True
You
Reality
" 50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It's just for the show. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Social Media
Social
Show
" Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Write
Questions
Enough
" 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. "
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Power
New York
Language
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Responsibility
Character
Good
" 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. "
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Exercise
Down
Free
" The show runner's the boss until the network shows up. And then they're the boss, because it's their money. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Boss
Show
Network
" When I was pitching 'Power,' I had an executive say, 'Well, I already have a black show.' He said that right to my face. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Said
Say
Black
" 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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Women
Experience
People
" I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that's always super satisfying. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Television
Home
You
" It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky. "
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TV
Lucky
Me
" When I first arrived in Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to try to break into television, I couldn't believe how segregated it was - how many neighborhoods were nearly all-white or all-black or -Asian or -Latino. "
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Try
New York
New
" I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things. "
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Two
Always
Everything
" Knowing what I don't know helps me every day. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Knowing
Know
Every Day
" If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills. "
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Work
Boss
Way
" I had very much wanted to be the very first black female editor-in-chief of 'Vogue.' Barring that, I wanted to work at 'Entertainment Weekly.' "
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Entertainment
Work
Black
" You don't keep your job if you don't make a great show. "
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" Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. "
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Day
Taking
Power