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" I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Those
Want
Lying
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" Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Day
Taking
Power
" When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Power
True
You
" I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I felt different from everybody else. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Class
Race
Up
" 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
" 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
" The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Women
Character
Play
" I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about. "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
Running
Person
" I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Control
Prayer
I Can
" There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Create
Success
Things
" The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Me
Family
Black
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Think
Black
I Am
" It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Animal
Other
Ridiculous
" Knowing what I don't know helps me every day. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Knowing
Know
Every Day
" I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Complicated
Experience
Job
" In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe. "
Courtney A. Kemp
College
Listening
Theatre
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Love
Seeing
People
" I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Judge
Shame
More
" Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Time
Black
Growing Up
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Black
Parents
Lived
" If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Time
Enthusiasm
Job
" 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
" The Shawshank Redemption' isn't a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends - it's a movie about freedom. At the end, the cathartic experience of seeing our own emotions reflected back to us, that's the purpose of storytelling. "
Courtney A. Kemp
End
Experience
Freedom
" 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?' "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
More
Me
" I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has a point of view that you as an audience member can understand. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Design
View
Point Of View
" I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?' "
Courtney A. Kemp
Never
You
Ask
" 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
" 50 Cent and I really started to bond over our love for music. The first conversations we had were about Curtis Mayfield. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Music
Over
Started
" Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines. "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
Management
Good
" I love Pusha T and The Clipse. "
Courtney A. Kemp
T
Love
I Love
" 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