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" I love Pusha T and The Clipse. "
Courtney A. Kemp
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" I am a black woman, and I'm proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me unique beyond my race. "
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" 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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" If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other. "
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" My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents grew up in segregation, and they both lived in all-black neighborhoods and grew up with large black families. I didn't have any of that, and I didn't understand feeling so differently and being treated so differently. "
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Lived
" Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready. "
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" Knowing what I don't know helps me every day. "
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" In 2011, when my father passed away - I had my daughter first; I had her on January 24, and I had a seizure during the delivery. I lived through that, and five weeks later, my father died suddenly of a heart attack, and I lived through that. And then my daughter had surgery, and I lived through that. "
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" 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
" My dad was born with no money. "
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" I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control. "
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I Can
" The show runner's the boss until the network shows up. And then they're the boss, because it's their money. "
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Network
" 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. "
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Home
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" There's always going to be a part of me that wants an Emmy. Truthfully, I'm probably more motivated by people being entertained. I'm more motivated by people being like, 'Oh snap! Did you see that?' "
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People
More
Me
" I love 'Archer.' That's one of the best-written shows out there. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Love
Out
I Love
" 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. "
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" When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban. "
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Woman
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" 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. "
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I Can
Think
Story
" I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?' "
Courtney A. Kemp
Never
You
Ask
" 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
" 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. "
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Cool
Thought
Think
" Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. "
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Thrive
Great
Partnerships
" It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal. "
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Animal
Other
Ridiculous
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Work
Want
Just
" 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. "
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Truth
Feel
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" There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true. "
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Black
You
Power
" I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid. "
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Knew
Paid
Wanted
" If you look at the back pages of 'New York Times Magazine,' and they talk about these 6.5-million-dollar condos with a great view, like you're going to pay for a great view. Well, the top floor of the projects have a great view, too. "
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Great
Look
" The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. "
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Family
Black
" 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
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Fashion
" I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for 'Vibe.' I did music reviews. I wrote for 'Time Out.' I was desperate to get into 'Entertainment Weekly' or 'New York Magazine.' Like, desperate. "
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