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" I want to make sure I don't leave any money for my kids, so I'm going to spend it all on clothes. "

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" I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it. "

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

" Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show. "

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

" '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. "

" My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects. "

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

" It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy. "

" We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved. "

" 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. "

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

" I hear people say, 'I'm not a role model' all the time, and it's like, 'Well, of course you're not!' It doesn't mean that people aren't going to look at you as one, though. "

" The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it. "

" I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation. "

" I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people. "

" I don't know Channing Dungey well, but we have talked several times, and she seems like an amazing executive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality. "

" I want to start really developing more on the film side. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular. "

" There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong. "

" At my core, I'm shy. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "