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" I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it. "
Kenya Barris
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" No one's pro-police brutality. "
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" I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters. "
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" I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.' "
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" I don't know Channing Dungey well, but we have talked several times, and she seems like an amazing executive. "
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" I want to start really developing more on the film side. "
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" At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money. "
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" If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing. "
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" Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences. "
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" I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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First
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Tell
" Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids. "
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" 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. "
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Day
Family
World
" 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. "
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Going
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" 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. "
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" For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go on and do other things while, at the same time, she made sure she kept her stamp on those things and grew her business. "
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" I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular. "
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" 'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series. "
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" Sometimes you realize that life isn't defined by the good times. "
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" Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth. "
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You
" Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice. "
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" No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're in the middle of it, when you're a kid growing up, you don't think, 'This is my first heartbreak.' You just think, 'My heart is broken.' But then as a parent, you look back, and you see your child go through his or her first heartbreak, and you're realizing, 'Oh my God, this is her first heartbreak.' "
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" I love Donald Glover. "
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